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(Hypertension. 2000;35:1.)
© 2000 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorial

Annual Progress Report and Our Thanks to Referees

1999

Edward D. Frohlich, MD, Editor-in-Chief
L. Gabriel Navar, PhD, Associate Editor
Richard N. Ré, MD, Associate Editor

	Introduction

 
Dear Colleagues:

This is the sixth annual report to you, our readers, who are the major raison d’être of Hypertension. We continue to be most heartened by your words of encouragement; many of you have also supported our journal by submitting and reviewing the best manuscripts in the field of hypertension and blood pressure regulation and control.

With respect to our most recent publication statistics, we are proud and pleased to tell you that the impact factor of our journal remains the highest of all hypertension journals. The number of manuscripts submitted to us continues to increase. Last year, 1054 manuscripts were submitted to the journal; and, as of November 1, we have received 1090 papers and we conservatively anticipate receiving 1250 submissions by year’s end. We continue to maintain a very speedy initial review time of 3.9 weeks from submission to first decision and 13.7 weeks from submission to final acceptance. As you know, the first figure is probably the most pertinent for the author to assess the promptness of journal review. The latter figure reflects many other factors including the speediness of the authors to respond to the reviewers’ comments and suggestions (including the performance of additional experiments).

Special note should be made that over the past six years, we have increased the number of clinical research papers published in Hypertension so that now they comprise over one half of the manuscripts published. They are of the very best work in clinical investigation and, clearly, are on par . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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