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Cardiovascular Research 2007 73(4):619-622; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2007.01.013
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Copyright © 2007, European Society of Cardiology

Readers' choice: Hot papers downloaded in 2006

Betsy Martinson, Michael Piper Hans, Editor-in-Chief, Garcia-Dorado David, Co-Editor and A. Martinson Elizabeth, Managing Editor*

Cardiovascular Research Editorial Office, Aulweg 129, D-35392 Giessen, Germany

* Corresponding author. Email Address: CVR{at}physiologie.med.uni-giessen.de

The Editorial Team at Cardiovascular Research is always interested in exploring trends in the literature and finding out what topics are of current interest in cardiology and vascular biology. One way we do this is to occasionally monitor which articles published in CVR are most often downloaded as full-text papers. With an average of 50,000 requests for CVR titles per month in 2006, a figure that has increased almost threefold over the past 4 years, we are in a good position to analyze the data.

The most-downloaded review articles published in Cardiovascular Research in 2006 are shown in Table 1. The articles generating the greatest interest were those published in Spotlight Issues: the Spotlight on Matrix Metalloproteinases published in February [1,17], the Spotlight on Postconditioning published in May [7,10,16,20], and the Spotlight on Reactive Oxygen Species published in July [2–4,13–15]. In addition, articles in a Review Focus on caveolae received much attention [6,19].


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  		Table 1 Most-downloaded review articles in 2006

 
Requests for original articles are perhaps even more indicative of an interest trend among our readers, as these papers span a wider range of topics. As can be seen in Table 2, two areas appear as foci of highest interest: atherosclerosis [22,24,26,28,32,33,39] and myocardial protection [25,27,30,31,34,36,38,40]. While the latter has been for a long time one of the areas receiving extensive coverage in this Journal, the large number of downloads of papers on atherosclerosis and vascular biology confirms that the Journal has become an equally good platform for papers dealing with vascular topics.


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  		Table 2 Most-downloaded original articles in 2006

 
We surveyed the articles published in the Journal in 2006 by evaluating the sum of full-text downloads for each article over a 6-month period that included the first appearance online and the publication in print. Our analysis showed that the peak of downloading activity immediately follows the appearance of an article in the PubMed online platform (Fig. 1). Furthermore, at the cover date, signifying a paper's appearance in print and within a complete issue, the number of downloads is declining. These observations are not surprising if one considers how most readers search for articles of interest nowadays.


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  		Fig. 1 Time course of monthly requests for the electronic full-text versions of the top-requested 20 original articles published in Cardiovascular Research in 2006. The month of a paper's appearance as a corrected proof in the Internet (for example, in PubMed) was set to "0" on the abscissa as a point of reference. SciDir refers to the online platform Science Direct. Mean requests per month±SEM are shown.

 
As expected, the impact factor of CVR rose last year to 5.283, an all-time high for the Journal. In parallel, the immediacy index increased to 1.373. This latter figure is an expression of the rapidness of citation of a journal's articles; i.e. citation of papers in the same year as their date of publication. With citation of articles-in-press now possible by use of the DOI (digital object identifier), papers are getting read and cited even more rapidly.

In conclusion, Cardiovascular Research is a rapid journal: Rapid in review, rapid in online publishing, rapid in usage by its readers, and rapid in being cited.


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