Abstract
Under the editorial directives of Prof Kim Fox, the European Heart Journal has become one of the most important international journals in clinical cardiovascular (CV) medicine. This has paralleled the growing influence and importance of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), of which the European Heart Journal is the principal journal, in global CV medicine today. Besides high-level, peer-reviewed research papers, the Journal is the forum where the ESC publishes its much used and cited guidelines aimed at promoting the immediate use of the latest research findings for patient treatment, positioning the Journal at the forefront of the trend towards an evidence-based clinical CV medicine. As of 1st October 2002, the Editorial Office left London, England, and came to Leuven in Belgium. This change of address and leadership has led to a significant number of changes within the journal itself including a broadening of the scope of the articles published and the introduction of a fully electronic and online system, which facilitates the submission of manuscripts from authors and streamlines the reviewing and publication processes. In order to manage the amount of papers and the broad and numerous scope of subspecialities, a local team of 22 Associate Editors, each with a specialty in a sub-discipline of CV medicine, has been established offering immediate expertise in the evaluation of each manuscript submitted to the European Heart Journal . The evaluation system (Fig. 1) has become highly comprehensive with each published paper now receiving a minimum of seven reviewers: three Editors, two or three expert reviewers, a detailed statistical review by our in-house bio-statisticians and final editing of the manuscript to ensure the accuracy of the … *Correspondence to: Dr. Neil Goodman, PhD, Department of Cardiology, Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Herestraat 49, B3000 Leuven, Belgium. Tel.: +32-16-342-118; fax: +32-16-342-138 neil.goodman{at}uz.kuleuven.ac.be
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