Firstly, I would like to wish you all a very happy, prosperous new year.
In 2011, the 3rd year of Hypertension Research in its current format and platform (for online content), we again were kept busy working to further grow this journal. We have focused more on the ‘everyday workings’ of the journal, trying to be more selective and efficient in reviewing papers, in order to further improve the quality of the content. Some of these improvements have more to do with our work procedures and so may not be very visible to our readers. Herein, I would like to introduce some of these changes that were made in 2011.
Since 2009, the number of submissions to Hypertension Research has been increasing and we are trying hard to maintain a constant rate for processing papers to avoid delay. Currently, all received manuscripts are screened by our executive editors, and only papers that pass their check are sent to the responsible Associate Editor for the peer-review process. From the beginning of 2011, we have incorporated a more stringent set of requirements that we apply ‘in-house’ for newly submitted manuscripts. This has meant that only papers that we judge to be of interest to the community are being sent out for the peer-review process. This has enabled both a reduction in the time for decision and an improvement in the quality of papers being published in HR. We wish to continue this in the coming years, so would ask our reviewers to apply stricter criteria when evaluating the papers.
In 2011, we welcomed Dr Ji-Guang Wang and Dr Chang G Park to the board of Associate Editors. Responding to the increase in submissions from Asian countries, I am glad that we now have these two very distinguished editors representing HR in their regions. I sincerely hope that we’ll be able to receive more quality submissions from their territories, as well as from many other countries.
Our ‘Review Series’ continues to publish collected review articles. In 2011, we solicited high-quality papers in the areas of ‘Role of oxidative stress in hypertension and cardiovascular diseases’ and ‘New aspects of the sympathetic nervous system in hypertension’. Many of these review articles were made available for free online and were widely promoted to draw attention. As a result, they were often found in the monthly ‘top 10’ most frequently accessed or downloaded articles list. I am sure that the Review Series has contributed significantly to the increase in readership. Since 2009, the average monthly number of visits to HR website has increased by 60%. I am keen to continue publishing high-quality review articles in this ‘Review Series’ format. In 2012, we are hoping for feature reviews in
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Gender difference in hypertension
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Genetics in hypertension
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Hypertension and aging
I am sure the review papers in these topics would be well received by the community. I would like to thank the Associate Editors who have helped to plan these Review Series and worked hard to solicit manuscripts.
I should also mention that Hypertension Research introduced an Open Access (OA) option from January 2011, and started to offer authors the choice of publishing their papers as an OA article, making it available for free online immediately after it is published. Many journals are now publishing papers with this OA option, and many new ‘Full OA’ journals are being launched. This is certainly a new model of publishing that has been well received and demanded by the members of the scholarly community, including researchers in hypertension studies.
There are many items on our ‘to do’ list already for 2012, to further establish HR as a well-respected journal in the community. I would like to spend this year working to get these things done, although continuing to work on incoming manuscripts to make Hypertension Research a more mature and sophisticated journal with a truly international standard. I am lucky that I can work with my great colleagues and friends in the editorial board. With their great cooperation and help, I am hoping that we will see some good results from our editorial work at the end of this year.
Finally in closing, I’d like to acknowledge those reviewers who helped us in reading manuscripts and making decisions during 2011. Hypertension Research is fully reliant on their expert knowledge and warm support. The following individuals provided reviews of papers submitted to Hypertension Research from 1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011:
Abe, Masanori
Acelajado, Czarina
Adachi, Hisashi
Aguirre, Carmelo
Aihara, Ken-Ichi
Akagi, Satoshi
Akasaka, Hiroshi
Akishita, Masahiro
Albu, Adriana
Andersen, Ulla
Ando, Katsuyuki
Angeli, Fabio
Anzai, Toshihisa
Aoki, Hiroki
Arakawa, Kikuo
Arima, Hisatomi
Arima, Shuji
Armando, Ines
Asakura, Masanori
Asayama, Kei
August, Phyllis
Babazono, Tetsuya
Bader, Michael
Badoer, Emilio
Bakris, George
Banday, Anees
Banfi, Giuseppe
Barger, Mary
Barrios, Vivencio
Baulmann, Johannes
Baumann, Marcus
Baumert, Mathias
Bayley, JP
Baynard, Tracy
Bechara, Luiz Roberto Grassman
Belin De Chantemele, Eric Jacques
Bendhack, Lusiane
Ben-Dov, Iddo
Biaggioni, Italo
Bilo, Grzegorz
Blankesteijn, W Matthijs
Bobadilla, Norma
Bogatkevich, Galina
Borghi, Claudio
Bramlage, Peter
Brixner, Diana
Bruno, Rosa
Buck, Hudson
Bujold, Emmanuel
Burnier, Michel
Burti, Juliana
Buscemi, Silvio
Cameron, James
Casarini, Dulce
Casiglia, Edoardo
Cesana, Giancarlo
Chambers, Rachel
Chen, Chen-Huan
Chen, Jaw-Wen
Cheng, Xian Wu
Cheng, Zixi
Cho, Kyung Woo
Chung, Chang-Min
Cicero, Arrigo
Cornelissen, V
Coto, Eliecer
Cox, Kay
Cruickshank, Kennedy
Cusi, Daniele
Daimon, Masao
Dandapat, Abhijit
Das, Undurti
De Leeuw, Peter
De Souza, Fabio
Derosa, Giuseppe
Di Iorio, Biagio
Dixon, Ian
Dohi, Yasuaki
Dolan, Eamon
Dominiczak, Anna
Dong, Yanbin
Dragun, Duska
Dunn, William
Eguchi, Kazuo
Elased, Khalid
Elsaie, Mohamed
Emoto, Noriaki
Erhardt, Peter
Evelyn, Torsney
Fazio, Giovanni
Ferro, Charles
Figueroa, Arturo
Fornage, Myriam
Franco, Martha
Freidin, Maxim
Fujisawa, Tomomi
Fujiwara, Yoshinori
Funder, John
Galetta, Fabio
Gandley, Robin
Gavish, Benjamin
Ghamari-Langroudi, Masoud
Giles, Thomas
Glowinska-Olszewska, Barbara
Gondim, Francisco
Gosse, Philippe
Granado, Nisara
Granger, Neil
Griendling, Kathy
Gu, Dongfeng
Gu, Mingliang
Guo, Tingwei
Gupta, Alok
Gyselaers, Wilfried
Hagiwara, Hiromi
Han, Seung Hyeok
Hansen, Tine
Hasebe, Naoyuki
Hashimoto, Junichiro
Hata, Kenichiro
Hayashi, Koichi
Hayashi, Terumasa
Hazell, Tom
Heagerty, Anthony
Heidland, August
Hermenegildo, Carlos
Hermida, Ramon
Higaki, Jitsuo
Higashi, Yukihito
Higashiyama, Aya
Hirawa, Nobuhito
Hirohito, Metoki
Hirooka, Yoshitaka
Hitomi, Hirofumi
Hocher, Berthold
Homma, Yoshimi
Horinaka, Shigeo
Horio, Takeshi
Hornum, Mads
Hoshide, Satoshi
Hosoya, Tatsuo
Hozawa, Atsushi
Hu, Weichih
Hübner, Norbert
Hulver, Matthew
Ichihara, Atsuhiro
Ichiki, Toshihiro
Igase, Michiya
Ikari, Yuji
Imai, Enyu
Imanaka-Yoshida, Kyoko
Imanishi, Toshio
Inden, Yasuya
Inoue, Ituro
Inoue, Teruo
Inui, Naoki
Inukai, Kouichi
Irita, Jun
Irminger-Finger, Irmgard
Irwin, Richard
Iseki, Kunitoshi
Ishigami, Tomoaki
Ishikawa, Shizukiyo
Ishimitsu, Toshihiko
Isobe, Mitsuaki
Ito, Hiroshi
Ito, Masaaki
Ito, Masahiro
Ito, Satoru
Iwai, Masaru
Iwasaki, Yasumasa
Izawa, Hideo
Jeon, Byeong Hwa
Jialal, Ishwarlal
Jonas, Jost
Jordan, Jens
Juonala, Markus
Kadota, Aya
Kagiyama, Shuntaro
Kagota, Satomi
Kai, Hisashi
Kaji, Hiroshi
Kamide, Kei
Kamoi, Kyuzi
Kario, Kazuomi
Karumanchi, Ananth
Katabami, Takuyuki
Kato, Johji
Katsuya, Tomohiro
Kavey, Rae
Kawai, Hiroya
Kawamoto, Atsuhiko
Kawamoto, Ryuichi
Kawamura, Minoru
Kawamura, Takashi
Kawano, Yuhei
Kawasaki, Hiromu
Khalil, Asma
Khalil, Raouf
Khundmiri, Syed
Kikuya, Masahiro
Kim, Cheol-Ho
Kim, David
Kim, Deok Won
Kim, Soo Wan
Kimura, Genjiro
Kips, Jan
Kitakaze, Masafumi
Kitamura, Kazuo
Kitamura, Kenichiro
Kobayashi, Hiroshi
Kobayashi, Naohiko
Kobayashi, Shuzo
Kobori, Hiroyuki
Kohara, Katsuhiko
Kohler, Malcolm
Kokubo, Yoshihiro
Komai, Norio
Kondo, Takahisa
Konoshita, Tadashi
Konta, Tsuneo
Koshiyama, Hiroyuki
Kosuge, Masami
Kotani, Kazuhiko
Kotsis, Vasilios
Koya, Daisuke
Kreutz, Reinhold
Krzych, Lukasz
Kumagai, Hiroo
Kurata, Akira
Kurata, Mie
Kureishi-Bando, Yasuko
Kurtz, Theodore
Kusano, Eiji
Kushiro, Toshio
Kuwahara, Koichiro
Lee, Shin-Da
Leenen, Frans
Leeson, Paul
Lenz, Thomas
Li, Chunyan
Li, Jun
Liao, Ronglih
Lim, Se-Joong
Lindley, Richard
Lindsey, Merry
Litwin, Mieczyslaw
Liu, De-Pei
Lokhandwala, Mustafa
Lorenzen, Johan
Maeda, Seiji
Makino, Hirofumi
Mangge, Harald
Manolis, Athanasios
Mantero, Franco
Marti Del Moral, Amelia
Masugata, Hisashi
Masuo, Kazuko
Materson, Barry
Matsubara, Hiroaki
Matsubara, Tatsuaki
Matsui, Yoshio
Matsukawa, Kanji
Matsumura, Yasuo
Matsuoka, Hiroaki
Matsushita, Kunihiro
Matsuura, Hideo
Mceniery, Carmel
Mervaala, Eero
Miki, Tetsuro
Millis, Richard
Milovanovic, Branislav
Minamino, Tohru
Minatoguchi, Shinya
Mita, Mitsuo
Miura, Katsuyuki
Miura, Shin-Ichiro
Miura, Tetsuji
Miyamori, Isamu
Miyano, Ichiro
Miyata, Masaaki
Modesti, Pietro Amedeo
Mogi, Masaki
Molvarec, Attila
Moreira, Leila
Morgan, Linda
Mori, Kiyoshi
Morimoto, Sachio
Morimoto, Satoshi
Morimoto, Shigeto
Morishita, Yoshiyuki
Moriya, Hidekazu
Mukoyama, Masashi
Müller, Gerhard
Munakata, Masanori
Murakami, Shougo
Nabika, Toru
Nagai, Michiaki
Nagao, Masaya
Nagata, Kohzo
Nagata, Masaharu
Nakagami, Hironori
Nakahashi, Takeshi
Nakamura, Kazuhiro
Nakamura, Koshi
Nakamura, Motoyuki
Nakamura, Tetsuya
Nakamura, Tsukasa
Nakamura, Yasuyuki
Nakano, Daisuke
Nakata, Yoshio
Nakata, Yukiko
Namdar, Mehdi
Narayanan, Damodaran
Narita, Ichiei
Natale, Francesco
Navar, L Gabriel
Ndao, Cheikh
Nguyen, Geneviève
Niccoli, Giampaolo
Ninomiya, Toshiharu
Nishikawa, Tetsuo
Nishikimi, Toshio
Nishiyama, Akira
Nitta, Kosaku
Node, Koichi
Noguchi, Katsuhiko
Numaguchi, Yasushi
Nussberger, Juerg
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Ogata, Hiroaki
Ogawa, Hisao
Ogawa, Tetsuya
Ogimoto, Akiyosi
Ohashi, Naro
Ohishi, Mitsuru
Ohkubo, Takayoshi
Ohshima, Kousei
Ohya, Yusuke
Oka, Toru
Okada, Hirokazu
Okamura, Tomio
Okayama, Satoshi
Okumura, Kenji
Okura, Hiroyuki
Okuyama, Harumi
Onakpoya, Igho
Oparil, Suzanne
O′Rourke, Mf
Os, Ingrid
Otsuka, Fumio
Otsuka, Kuniaki
Ozono, Ryoji
Pacak, Karel
Padmanabhan, Sandosh
Padyukov, Leonid
Pagkalos, Michael
Paulis, Ludovit
Pavlik, Valory
Pérez-López, Faustino
Perman, Gaston
Perticone, Francesco
Pestana, Manuel
Petek-Ster, Marija
Peterlin, Borut
Phillips, Robert
Phisitkul, Sorot
Pope Iii, Arden
Pravenec, Michal
Prior, Steven
Procopciuc, Lucia
Prosser, Hamish
Quinn, Carol
Raasch, Walter
Rahmouni, Kamal
Reckelhoff, Jane
Reed, Shelby
Reusz, György
Riederer, Monika
Roberts, Mary
Robinson, Stephen
Ruilope, Luis
Ryuzaki, Munekazu
Sabio, José
Safar, Michel
Sagara, Miki
Saito, Ikuo
Saito, Isao
Saito, Yoshihiko
Sakata, Yasuhiko
Salles, Gil
Salvi, Paolo
Sanchez, Ramiro
Sano, Motoaki
Sansom, Steven
Santos, Raul
Sari, Ibrahim
Sasamura, Hiroyuki
Sata, Masataka
Sato, Akira
Sato, Atsuhisa
Sato, Yuichiro
Sato, Yuzo
Satoh, Minoru
Schalinske, Kevin
Schillaci, Giuseppe
Schmidt, Reinhold
Schteingart, David
Schultz, Harold
Schupp, Michael
Schutte, Rudolph
Segers, Patrick
Seki, Shingo
Sekizuka, Hiromitsu
Senbonmatsu, Takaaki
Shale, Dennis
Shaul, Philip
Shimosawa, Tatsuo
Shinichi, Oomama
Shiomi, Toshiaki
Shirai, Kohji
Silver, Robert
Skilton, Michael
Sookoian, Silvia
Sorlie, Paul
Spitsyn, Victor
Stergiou, George
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Sugimoto, Ken
Sugiyama, Atsushi
Sun, Wei
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Taddei, Stefano
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Takahashi, Wakoh
Takai, Shinji
Takase, Bonpei
Takazawa, Kenji
Takeda, Yasuharu
Takemura, Hirofumi
Takiuchi, Shin
Tamura, Kouichi
Tanaka, Hirofumi
Tao, Jun
Terada, Seishi
Terada, Yoshio
Tojo, Akihiro
Tokudome, Takeshi
Tomita, Naruya
Tomiyama, Hirofumi
Tomlinson, Brian
Tóth, Miklós
Townsend, Raymond
Toyoda, Kazunori
Tranquilli, Andrea
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Tsuchihashi-Makaya, Miyuki
Tsuda, Kazushi
Tsuji, Yukiomi
Tsujino, Takeshi
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Ueno, Takahiro
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Uzu, Takashi
Van Bortel, Luc
Van Vliet, Bruce
Vanderlei, Luiz Carlos
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Villegas, Raquel
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Visseren, Frank
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Waki, Hidefumi
Walsh, Kenneth
Wang, Chunyu
Wang, Zuoguang
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Watanabe, Makoto
Weber, Thomas
Weinreich, Thomas
Wen, Xiaozhong
Wilkinson, Ian
Wilson, Sarah
Wilson, Thomas
Wyatt, Sharon
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Yamada, Yoshiji
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
Yamamoto, Kenta
Yamasue, Kotaro
Yang, Wei-Shiung
Yano, Yuichiro
Yasuda, Osamu
Yasujima, Minoru
Yasukawa, Hideo
Yoshiaki, Taniyama
Yoshida, Masayuki
Yoshimoto, Takanobu
Yoshimura, Michihiro
Yoshiyama, Minoru
Yoshizumi, Masao
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Horiuchi, M. New year wish and updates. Hypertens Res 35, 1–3 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/hr.2011.207
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