Submissions, editorial process and impact factor 1992-2000: focus on Europe.

Abstract

In the August 1999 issue of Cardiovascular Research at the occasion of the congress of the European Society of Cardiology in Barcelona [1] we commented on the increase in submissions and publications from Europe from 1992 to 1998 [2–4]. Now, one year later at the occasion of the 2000 version of the same congress in Amsterdam, we present statistical data on the number of submissions, the editorial process and the impact factor in past and future. Fig. 1 shows that the submissions in 1999 came primarily from Europe (56%) and from North-America (22%) with 11% from both Japan and the rest of the world. The estimates for 2000 (by 1 June 2000) are somewhat higher for Japan and lower for North-America. Fig. 2 shows the absolute number of submissions for Europe and North-America. For the first time we received over 600 manuscripts from Europe (611), which is now about the same as the total number of submissions during the years 1992–1995. Fig. 2 also shows that the percentual decrease in submissions from North-America (Fig. 1) results from the increase in submissions from other parts of the world, because the absolute number of submissions from North-America is stable at about … * Corresponding author. Present address: Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. Tel.: +31-30-253-8923; fax: +31-30-253-9036 t.opthof{at}med.uu.nl