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(Hypertension. 1999;33:767-768.)
© 1999 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorial

Hypertension

The Second Five Years

Edward D. Frohlich, MD¹

¹ Editor-in-Chief

L. Gabriel Navar, PhD; Richard N. Ré, MD²

² Associate Editors

As published last month in Hypertension, the editors, supported by our editorial board, have decided that one way the journal could feature a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Hypertension would be to identify not only each of the previous editors and associate editors of the journal, but also the outstanding manuscripts which were published in each of the five- year periods. In highlighting which manuscripts had the greatest impact on the hypertension research community, we were able to identify, through the help of the Lippincott William & Wilkins staff and the Institute for Scientific Information, the top 25 manuscripts in Hypertension that received the greatest impact in world literature. The first five-year period of the journal, edited by Dr Harriet Dustan and her staff, was featured last month. This month we honor Dr Edgar Haber and his colleagues: Drs Victor J. Dzau, Robert M. Graham, and Randall M. Zusman from Harvard University in Boston. During this five-year period, the journal doubled its publications moving from a journal published every other month to a monthly journal. Therefore, the identification of the top 25 manuscripts for this five- year period and the subsequent five- year periods are even more selective in their impact because twice as many papers were published in these five- year periods than during the first five years of Hypertension.

Thus, under Dr Haber's able leadership from 1984–1988, Hypertension established its major academic position in the hypertension research area. During the latter years of his editorship, Dr . . . [Full Text of this Article]