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(Hypertension. 2005;45:316.)
© 2005 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editor's Report

Hypertension—Update 2005

John E. Hall on behalf of the Editors

Correspondence to John E. Hall, PhD, Editorial Office, Hypertension, University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2500 N. State St., Jackson, MS 39216-4505. E-mail hypertension@physiology.umsmed.edu

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We greatly appreciate the privilege of serving as editors of Hypertension, the premier journal in its field. We are also grateful to you, the readers, authors, editorial board members, and reviewers, for your support of the journal and for your excellent scientific contributions, the primary reasons for the continued success of Hypertension.

In this report we provide a brief summary of the current status of the Journal and progress in achieving the goals that were outlined in 2002 when we assumed the editorship.¹ These goals are: (1) to ensure publication of the highest quality original basic and clinical research relating to hypertension; (2) to increase the readership and scientific importance of Hypertension; (3) to ensure rapid and fair manuscript reviews, rapid publication of papers, and to provide the highest possible level of efficiency and "customer satisfaction" in our office operations; and (4) to effectively serve the international community of hypertension researchers and clinicians and to provide an important vehicle for achieving the mission of the American Heart Association (AHA) and its Scientific Councils.

Publication of the Highest Quality Original Basic and Clinical Research

The goal of publishing the highest quality hypertension research is easy to proclaim but challenging to achieve, because many other cardiovascular and hypertension journals also compete for the "best" papers. Yet, by all objective measures that we have available, including acceptance rate, "impact factor," "customer" feedback, readership surveys, and other measures, the quality of manuscripts published in Hypertension appears to be very high.

Acceptance Rate
The acceptance rate for manuscripts submitted to Hypertension averaged over 30% . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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