Your journal in 2007

We are now in our fourth year and our journal continues to serve the scientific, clinical and public health disciplines addressing the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease. We are receiving increasing numbers of manuscripts from a wide diversity of scientists and practitioners across Europe and, indeed, almost all regions of the world. In 2004, we received 162 original scientific papers for review. By last year this number had increased considerably. Currently, we are receiving an average of 36 papers per month which are shared between our two virtual editorial offices in Berne and London. Our debut Impact Factor of 3.0 in 2004 (on the basis of citations to articles published in the first three issues of our newly launched journal in 2003) now stands at 2.3 in 2005 and we are currently placed 23rd in the rank order of 72 cardiovascular journals worldwide. Every year we become progressively stricter in the selection of original scientific papers. In the last 6 months of 2006, the acceptance rate had to be decreased to 26%, and we expect this to fall even further during 2007. By publishing the ‘best of the best’ scientific papers we hope to raise our Impact Factor and improve on this in the coming years. To this end, we welcome your high-quality scientific papers but we would also like to receive authoritative reviews, meta-analyses and systematic reviews.