Message From the Editor-in-Chief
Editorial Statistics and Best Reviewers Award for 2024
2025 Volume 89 Issue 2 Pages 147-149
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2025 Volume 89 Issue 2 Pages 147-149
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Circulation Journal, I am pleased to announce the editorial statistics for 2024, and the recipients of the Best Reviewers Awards for 2024.
As shown in Figure 1, we received 1,028 manuscripts in 2024, for publication in the Journal, including 817 Original papers (723 Clinical Investigation and 94 Experimental Investigation), 39 Review Articles (9 invited and 30 not-invited), 27 invited Editorial Comments, 23 Rapid Communications, and 115 Images in Cardiovascular Medicine. Approximately 60% 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). In the Covid-19 catastrophe, the number of paper submissions, which had been on the decline, has once again begun a steady rise.
The details of manuscripts submitted in 2024.
Countries submitting manuscripts in 2024.
The total number of submissions for the last 10 years.
The number of submissions for the last 10 years in top 5 countries.
In 2024, a total of 908 reviewers kindly reviewed the manuscripts submitted. In appreciation of their valuable contributions, we have selected the 20 Best Reviewers of the Year 2024 as follows:
| Toshiyuki Nagai, MD (Hokkaido University, Hokkaido) Number of reviews: 14 RPS: 84.0 Previous awards: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
Naohiko Takahashi, MD (Oita University, Oita) Number of reviews: 12 RPS: 72.0 Previous awards: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| Hideki Ishii, MD (Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Gunma) Number of reviews: 10 RPS: 70.0 Previous awards: 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
Hirohiko Ando, MD (Aichi Medical University, Aichi) Number of reviews: 10 RPS: 68.0 Previous awards: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 |
| Takahiro Okumura, MD (Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Aichi) Number of reviews: 11 RPS: 64.0 Previous awards: 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 |
Yasushi Matsuzawa, MD (Kumamoto University Hospital, Kumamoto) Number of reviews: 7 RPS: 59.0 Previous awards: 2022, 2023 |
| Teruhiko Imamura, MD (University of Toyama, Toyama) Number of reviews: 10 RPS: 56.0 Previous awards: 2020, 2023 |
Takashi Kunihara, MD (The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo) Number of reviews: 10 RPS: 51.3 Previous awards: 2018 |
| Yuichi Saito, MD (Chiba University Hospital, Chiba) Number of reviews: 7 RPS: 50.0 |
Yoshiharu Kinugasa, MD (Tottori University, Tottori) Number of reviews: 9 RPS: 48.0 Previous awards: 2022 |
| Yohei Numasawa, MD (Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo) Number of reviews: 8 RPS: 46.0 Previous awards: 2022, 2023 |
Yoshiyasu Minami, MD (Kitasato University Hospital, Kanagawa) Number of reviews: 6 RPS: 43.0 |
| Shinya Suzuki, MD (The Cardiovascular Institute, Tokyo) Number of reviews: 7 RPS: 42.0 Previous awards: 2020, 2021, 2022 |
Hidekazu Tanaka, MD (Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Hyogo) Number of reviews: 7 RPS: 42.0 Previous awards: 2021, 2022 |
| Kentaro Yoshida, MD (University of Tsukuba / Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital, Ibaraki) Number of reviews: 7 RPS: 42.0 Previous awards: 2022, 2023 |
Keisuke Kida, MD (St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kanagawa) Number of reviews: 9 RPS: 41.7 Previous awards: 2021, 2023 |
| Yasushi Mukai, MD (Japanese Red-Cross Fukuoka Hospital, Fukuoka) Number of reviews: 8 RPS: 41.0 Previous awards: 2018, 2022 |
Ayako Kunimura, MD (Aichi Medical University, Aichi) Number of reviews: 8 RPS: 40.0 Previous awards: 2023 |
| Toshiyuki Ko, MD (Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo) Number of reviews: 8 RPS: 39.0 |
Toru Kubo, MD (Kochi University, Kochi) Number of reviews: 11 RPS: 38.4 |
*The Reviewer Performance Score (RPS) is determined as follows for reviewers who made at least 6 reviews in 2024 (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 2025, we expect a steady increase in the number of submissions, as well as an increase in the scientific impact of the Journal.
