Hypertension

Abstract

We are happy to report continued progress during the past year in achieving the goals outlined previously for Hypertension .1 The readership of the journal has been further expanded; the quality and impact of the published original research continue to increase; the review process appears to be fairly efficient and (we hope you agree) effective in selecting the best papers in the field; and Hypertension provides an important vehicle for disseminating clinically important information and for achieving the mission of the American Heart Association (AHA) and its scientific councils. The main credit for this progress goes to you, as authors, editorial board members, reviewers, and readers, for your support of Hypertension and for your excellent scientific contributions. In this report we summarize a few statistics and new initiatives and provide a brief perspective on what we can, and should, do better. Figure 1 shows the steady increase in article submissions during the past 5 years. These data do not include submissions for the Proceedings of the AHA Council for High Blood Pressure Research, the Inter-American Society of Hypertension, or the International Workshop on Structure and Function of Large Arteries, which include an additional 160 articles for 2007. Figure 1. Number of article submissions for original scientific contributions for January 1, 2002, to December 31, 2007. These data do not include 160 articles for the Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, Inter-American Society of Hypertension, and the International Workshop on Structure and Function of Large Arteries. Articles were submitted from 65 countries. The top 5 countries and their percentages of the total number of articles submitted are shown in Figure 2. Figure 2. The top 10 countries and their percentages of the total submitted articles for 2007. Approximately 58% of articles submitted in 2007 were clinical …