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Cardiovascular Research 2006 69(4):773-776; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2006.01.009
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Copyright © 2004, European Society of Cardiology

Cardiovascular Research speeds up–Even more

Hans Michael Piper and Elizabeth A. Martinson*

* CVR{at}physiologie.med.uni-giessen.de

In these days of information technology, the speed of the flow of information is of the essence. Since mid-2005, Cardiovascular Research's articles-in-press have been accessible via the PubMed database and Science Direct a few weeks after being accepted for publication. However, the Journal has decided to go one step further: starting soon, our articles-in-press will be available online within four days of acceptance by the Journal's Editorial Team. These articles will be in the form of the accepted PDF version provided by the author that will be immediately citable using the digital object identifier (DOI) number. Later, this version will be replaced by the corrected, typeset article-in-press with which most readers are already familiar that appears also in PubMed. We welcome this development as it means that there is essentially no delay in the flow of information: soon after an article is accepted, it may be downloaded and read. These articles-in-press may be accessed via the Science Direct platform found at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00086363.

We have seen over the past few years that the number of the Journal's articles being downloaded per month has steadily increased from roughly 17,000 in July of 2002 to about 46,000 in July of 2005. Based on analysis of citations in the literature, this has also translated into more rapid citation of Cardiovascular Research articles. Thus, our "immediacy index," which represents how often articles are cited in the same year they are published, has gone from 0.90 in 2002 to 1.15 in 2004. The estimate for 2005 is even higher, at 1.30. With the introduction of rapid online publication of recently accepted articles, this citation speed is likely to increase further, which means that our authors and readers have a better chance than ever of communicating with one another in the near future.

Which articles are currently of the greatest interest to our readers? In surveying the download statistics of articles published in the first 11 months of 2005, we see that several reviews and original articles stand out (Tables 1 and 2Go). Among the reviews, two were requested online twice as many times as other leading articles. The first is on the topic of stem cells [1] and the second on the biology of vascular endothelial growth factors [2]. Among the top-downloaded review articles, the reviews in the three Spotlight Issues on growth factors, aging, and arrhythmias figure prominently. A few of the original articles (Table 2) were downloaded as often or more often than many reviews, especially several dealing again with stem cells [21,22,26]. Notably, three of the top twenty most-downloaded originals are Rapid Communications [26,28,35]. Since there were only four Rapid Communications published in 2005, this article format, which was introduced two years ago, has proven to be an attractive forum for the presentation of brief, high-impact studies.


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