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(Circulation. 1995;91:244.)
© 1995 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Education of an Editor

Fulfillment of Promises

James T. Willerson, MD

	Introduction

 
The biggest problem of making internal maps of reality is not that we have to start from scratch, but that if our maps are to be accurate, we have to continually revise them.

M. Scott Peck, MD, 1993

In July 1993, we promised that Circulation would be increasingly interactive with its readership through a balanced selection of manuscripts reflecting the best of the clinical and basic research work that is submitted. We stated that we wished to publish Circulation twice a month in the near future; to review brief communications and regular manuscripts and communicate our decisions to authors within 2 and 4 weeks, respectively; and to provide a Cardiovascular News section, a monthly Clinicopathological Conference, a Cardiovascular Images section, and one to three editorials focusing on specific contributions in each issue. We committed ourselves to more timely publication of the brief communications and regular articles.

We are pleased to introduce twice-monthly publication of Circulation starting with this month, January 1995. Some question the value of such an effort, but we expect to be able to publish excellent manuscripts more rapidly in a slimmed-down version of Circulation and to compete even more effectively for the best clinical and basic research work as it applies to human disease, including the major clinical trials. Ultimately, I hope for even more frequent publication of Circulation as I believe that worldwide cardiovascular medicine deserves a weekly publication, and publishing the journal every 2 weeks is a step in that direction.

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