Message From the Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Statistics and Best Reviewers Award for 2022
2023 Volume 87 Issue 2 Pages 237-239
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2023 Volume 87 Issue 2 Pages 237-239
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Circulation Journal, I am pleased to announce the editorial statistics for 2022, and the recipients of the Best Reviewers Awards for 2022.
As shown in Figure 1, we received 831 manuscripts in 2022, for publication in the Journal, including 593 Original papers (530 Clinical Investigation and 63 Experimental Investigation), 21 Review Articles (20 invited and 1 not-invited), 41 invited Editorial Comments, 5 Rapid Communications, and 160 Images in Cardiovascular Medicine. Approximately 3/5 were submitted from Japan, followed by China, Korea, Taiwan, and USA (Figure 2). The total number of submissions for the last 10 years is introduced in Figure 3. The above mentioned 5 countries have remained the top 5 countries in terms of paper submissions over that period (Figure 4).
The details of manuscripts submitted in 2022.
Countries submitting manuscripts in 2022.
The total number of submissions for the last 10 years.
The number of submissions for the last 10 years in top 5 countries.
In 2022, a total of 890 reviewers kindly reviewed the manuscripts submitted. In appreciation of their valuable contributions, we have selected the 20 Best Reviewers of the Year 2022 as follows:
| Hideki Ishii, MD (Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma) Number of reviews: 19 RPS: 112.0 Previous awards: 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 |
Eitaro Kodani, MD (Nippon Medical School Tama Nagayama Hospital, Tokyo) Number of reviews: 12 RPS: 80.0 Previous awards: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 |
| Shun Kohsaka, MD (Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo) Number of reviews: 10 RPS: 63.2 Previous awards: 2020 |
Shinsuke Miyazaki, MD (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo) Number of reviews: 8 RPS: 58.0 Previous awards: 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 |
| Kentaro Yoshida, MD (University of Tsukuba / Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital, Ibaraki) Number of reviews: 11 RPS: 58.0 |
Takahiro Okumura, MD (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi) Number of reviews: 11 RPS: 56.8 Previous awards: 2018, 2019 |
| Naohiko Takahashi, MD (Oita University, Oita) Number of reviews: 9 RPS: 54.0 Previous awards: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 |
Hirohiko Ando, MD (Aichi Medical University, Aichi) Number of reviews: 9 RPS: 54.0 Previous awards: 2017, 2019, 2020 |
| Yasushi Matsuzawa, MD (Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa) Number of reviews: 11 RPS: 49.5 |
Shinya Suzuki, MD (The Cardiovascular Institute, Tokyo) Number of reviews: 8 RPS: 45.0 Previous awards: 2020, 2021 |
| Yasushi Mukai, MD (Japanese Red-Cross Fukuoka Hospital, Fukuoka) Number of reviews: 4 RPS: 44.0 Previous awards: 2018 |
Hiroshi Asanuma, MD (Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Kyoto) Number of reviews: 7 RPS: 42.0 Previous awards: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 |
| Toshiyuki Nagai, MD (Hokkaido University, Hokkaido) Number of reviews: 7 RPS: 42.0 Previous awards: 2020, 2021 |
Yohei Numasawa, MD (Japanese Red Cross Ashikaga Hospital, Tochigi) Number of reviews: 8 RPS: 41.6 |
| Koichi Inoue, MD (National Hospital Oganization Osaka National Hospital, Osaka) Number of reviews: 5 RPS: 40.0 Previous awards: 2015, 2019, 2021 |
Yoshiharu Kinugasa, MD (Tottori University, Tottori) Number of reviews: 7 RPS: 40.0 |
| Masashi Fujino, MD (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka) Number of reviews: 8 RPS: 39.4 |
Hidekazu Tanaka, MD (Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Hyogo) Number of reviews: 6 RPS: 39.3 Previous awards: 2021 |
| Masaki Izumo, MD (St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa) Number of reviews: 8 RPS: 36.8 |
Eiichi Watanabe, MD (Fujita Health University Bantane Hospital, Aichi) Number of reviews: 6 RPS: 36.0 Previous awards: 2018, 2020, 2021 |
*The Reviewer Performance Score (RPS) is determined as follows for reviewers who made at least 6 reviews in 2022 (review time limit, 14 days):
*RPS = [(Number of reviews completed within 1 week) × 2 + (number of reviews completed within 2 weeks) × 1 + (number of reviews completed within 3 weeks) × 0.2] × quality of review (average) – (number of declined reviews) + (number of editorial comments published in the Journal) × 10.
The review quality of reviewers was evaluated for each manuscript by an Associate Editor who was in charge of the manuscript (range: 1~3) and the average score used.
Reviewers above will be awarded by the Japanese Circulation Society with a Certificate of Achievement and an honorarium.
In the year ahead in 2023, we expect a steady increase in the number of submissions, as well as an increase in the scientific impact of the Journal.
