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Circulation Research Submission Guide: Requirements, Fit, and Editor Priorities

Circulation Research's submission process, first-decision timing, and the editorial checks that matter before peer review begins.

Author contextAssistant Professor, Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disease. Experience with Circulation, European Heart Journal, Cell Metabolism.View profile

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Key numbers before you submit to Circulation Research

Acceptance rate, editorial speed, and cost context — the metrics that shape whether and how you submit.

Full journal profile
Impact factor16.5Clarivate JCR
Acceptance rate~10%Overall selectivity
Time to decision21-35 daysFirst decision

What acceptance rate actually means here

  • Circulation Research accepts roughly ~10% of submissions — but desk rejection runs higher.
  • Scope misfit and framing problems drive most early rejections, not weak methodology.
  • Papers that reach peer review face a different bar: novelty, rigor, and fit with the journal's editorial identity.

What to check before you upload

  • Scope fit — does your paper address the exact problem this journal publishes on?
  • Desk decisions are fast; scope problems surface within days.
  • Cover letter framing — editors use it to judge fit before reading the manuscript.
Submission map

How to approach Circulation Research

Use the submission guide like a working checklist. The goal is to make fit, package completeness, and cover-letter framing obvious before you open the portal.

Stage
What to check
1. Scope
Pre-submission inquiry (optional but recommended for uncertain scope)
2. Package
Online submission through Editorial Manager
3. Cover letter
Editorial triage
4. Final check
Peer review

Quick answer: a strong Circulation Research submission guide (Circulation Research is the American Heart Association / AHA basic cardiovascular science flagship; submissions route through AHA Journals submission portal on AHA's Editorial Manager system, which routes through AHA journal page) should make one thing obvious before upload: this is mechanistic cardiovascular science, not a clinical paper wearing basic-science language.

Editors want causal depth, not just a disease association. They are looking for a manuscript that explains how a cardiovascular process works, why the mechanism matters, and why the evidence package is strong enough to change how the field thinks. Submission caps: Original Research articles cap at 5000 words of body text with up to 7 figures and tables combined, a 250-word structured abstract, and AHA reporting requirements.

Run a Circulation Research pre-submission readiness check before clicking submit, or work through this guide manually.

Method note: this page was reviewed against AHA Circulation Research author instructions, the journal homepage, Clarivate JCR 2024, SciRev author-reported timing, local Circulation Research pages, and Manusights pre-submission review patterns for cardiovascular manuscripts. It owns the submission-guide query; impact-factor, review-time, and good-journal questions stay on separate pages.

Editorial detail (for desk-screen calibration).

Circulation Research submissions route through AHA's Editorial Manager instance at AHA journal page (the basic-science portal is distinct from AHA journal page which serves the clinical Circulation flagship).

The package must clear: a 250-word structured abstract, 5,500-word main-text cap on Original Research articles, up to 7 figures and tables combined, AHA reference style, ORCID for all authors, and a reporting checklist matched to study type (ARRIVE for animal work, MIQE for qPCR, CONSORT for clinical, MIAME for transcriptomics).

Across our pre-submission reviews of Circulation Research manuscripts, the editorial triage pattern is fast and mechanism-discipline-focused: editorial decisions on average return in under 48 hours, full reviewed-manuscript decisions in under 21 days, and roughly 10 percent of submissions are accepted overall with a meaningfully higher desk-rejection share. The failure pattern that costs the most CircRes submissions: overclaiming mechanism from a package that is still too local, too descriptive, or too dependent on one model system.

Editors routinely reject papers where the data stop at correlation without mechanistic closure, where the cardiovascular relevance is implied but not argued, where the mechanism is demonstrated in one cell line and one mouse model with no orthogonal validation, where the cover letter pitches the paper as clinical translation when the data are pre-clinical only, or where the figures show descriptive associations without the rescue or knockout experiment that would establish causality.

The editorial culture rewards papers that complete a mechanistic loop with multiple orthogonal lines of evidence; it filters out work where the headline claim outruns the data.

From our manuscript review practice

Of manuscripts we've reviewed for Circulation Research, papers that remain mostly descriptive without mechanistic closure are the most consistent desk-rejection patterns. Editors want molecular or physiological explanation, not just observation. If your data stops at correlation, the paper is rejected at triage.

What official pages do not answer

Most current pages for Circulation Research submission explain AHA submission mechanics, journal scope, impact metrics, and article requirements. That helps with upload readiness, but it does not answer the harder fit question: whether the manuscript has enough causal cardiovascular biology to justify this particular AHA basic-science venue.

Official author guidance can tell you what to submit, but it cannot decide whether your abstract, first figure, methods, validation sample, data table, and cover letter make the mechanism strong enough for an editor to route the paper. That distinction matters because the journal is not screening only for cardiovascular relevance. It is screening for mechanistic depth in cardiovascular science.

Based on the 100 recent papers reviewed when this guide was built, the recurring Manusights pattern is that many submissions have credible disease association or omics depth, but the figure sequence does not close the causal loop. The strongest rejected manuscripts are often not weak papers. They are papers whose main claim still depends on association, single-model evidence, or translational promise before the biology is fully established.

For this refresh, we checked the AHA Circulation Research author-instruction path and recent Circulation Research records including 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.125.327486, 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.125.326185, and 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.125.326990. The current publication pattern reinforces the editorial screen below: successful papers tend to connect human, model, molecular, and functional evidence into a mechanism the field can evaluate without guessing.

Source limitations: this guide uses public AHA journal materials, Circulation Research author-instruction URLs, the public journal hub, Clarivate data, SciRev author-reported timing, local Manusights pages, and anonymized Manusights pre-submission review patterns. We did not inspect private AHA editorial notes, reviewer reports, or confidential decision letters.

That means the submission succeeds or fails long before the upload button. If the file still reads like:

  • an observational clinical dataset
  • a descriptive omics paper without mechanistic closure
  • a single-model story with narrow scope
  • a translational study where the biology is still too thin

The journal is usually the wrong fit, or the paper is not ready yet.

Circulation Research: Key Metrics

Metric
Value
Impact Factor (per Clarivate JCR 2024)
16.2
Quartile
Q1 in Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
Acceptance rate
~15%
Articles per year
~200
Publisher
American Heart Association (AHA)
Open access
Hybrid open access available

Source: JCR 2024, American Heart Association

Circulation Research Key Submission Requirements

Requirement
Details
Submission system
AHA online submission system
Word limit
Original Research Articles standard journal length; Brief Reports shorter format
Reference style
AHA standard reference format
Cover letter
Required; must state the mechanistic cardiovascular question and explain the evidence package
Data availability
Required; data sharing statement expected
APC
Hybrid open access available via AHA

What Circulation Research is actually trying to publish

Circulation Research is the basic and translational cardiovascular science journal in the AHA family. It is not where you send purely clinical outcomes work, procedural cardiology, or broad epidemiology. The journal wants to publish papers that advance understanding of cardiovascular biology at a mechanistic level.

In practice, that usually means:

  • molecular cardiology
  • vascular biology
  • inflammation and immunology in cardiovascular disease
  • cardiac metabolism
  • electrophysiology mechanisms
  • fibrosis, remodeling, and heart-failure biology
  • translational work with a strong mechanistic backbone

The center of gravity is mechanism. A manuscript showing that a marker rises in disease is not enough. A manuscript showing how that pathway alters signaling, tissue behavior, and functional outcome in a way that sharpens cardiovascular understanding is much closer to what editors want.

This is why many otherwise strong cardiovascular papers fail here. They may be valid. They may even be important. But if they do not materially advance the biology, they fit better in a more clinical cardiology venue.

What is the Circulation Research editorial triage timeline?

Submission caps: Original Research articles cap at 5500 words main text with up to 7 figures and tables combined, a 250-word structured abstract, and AHA reporting requirements. Brief Reports run shorter. Supplementary materials commonly accept files up to 50 MB per upload.

  • Day 0: AHA Editorial Manager upload. The AHA journal page portal accepts the package (manuscript, structured abstract, ORCID identifiers, cover letter stating mechanistic question + evidence package, conflicts of interest disclosure, funding statement, author contributions, data availability statement, AHA reporting checklist for the study type, suggested reviewers), runs AHA integrity checks, and routes to a Circulation Research handling editor.
  • Days 1 to 21: First editor read. The editor evaluates mechanistic depth (not just association), causal cardiovascular biology, single-model vs. multi-model evidence, and whether the figure sequence closes the causal loop. About 70 to 80% of submissions are desk-rejected.
  • Days 21 to 70: Peer review. Two or three reviewers spanning cardiovascular molecular biology, electrophysiology, vascular biology, or cardiac development as appropriate. Reviewer reports return on a 6 to 10 week cadence.
  • Days 70 to 100: First editorial decision. Major revision is the most common outcome for papers that pass desk review.
  • Days 100 to 180: Revision rounds and publication. AHA production typically pushes accepted Original Research articles online within 4 to 6 weeks of acceptance.

How Circulation Research compares to sister cardiovascular venues

Metric
Circulation Research
Cardiovascular Research
JACC: Basic to Translational Science
Nature Cardiovascular Research
Publisher
American Heart Association
Oxford University Press (for ESC)
American College of Cardiology / Elsevier
Nature Portfolio
JIF (2024 JCR)
16.2
14.5
11.5
9.7
Article types
Original Research, Brief Report, Review
Original Article, Review
Original Research, State-of-the-Art Review
Article, Review, Perspective
Word cap (Original Research)
5500 words main text
6000 words
5000 words
3000 to 5000 words
First decision (median)
4 to 6 weeks
4 to 6 weeks
4 to 6 weeks
2 to 4 weeks
Open access
Hybrid
Hybrid
Hybrid
Hybrid

Source: Clarivate JCR 2024, publisher author guidelines, SciRev author-reported medians (accessed May 2026).

Article types and what they mean for your submission

Article type
Key requirements
Original Research Article
Default route for full mechanistic papers; manuscript must look complete, not exploratory; editors expect a clear biological question, multiple lines of evidence, method stability, a credible mechanistic model, and enough consequence to matter across cardiovascular biology
Brief Report
Can work for a sharp mechanistic point with high significance; the shorter format must feel disciplined rather than incomplete; the scientific importance bar is not lower
Review
Typically solicited; not the standard route for unsolicited original science; submitting as a Review does not bypass the mechanistic depth screen

Source: American Heart Association, Circulation Research author guidelines

Do not try to rescue a thin paper by labeling it a different format. Editors will still assess whether the science looks finished, and a brief report that reads like an incomplete full paper is a recognizable pattern.

Before submitting to Circulation Research, a Circulation Research manuscript fit check identifies whether the package meets the editorial bar before you commit to the submission.

What editors screen first before peer review

The first pass is usually not about line-by-line methods. It is about editorial fit and consequence.

Editorial screen
Pass
Desk-rejection trigger
Mechanistic depth
Manuscript explains how a cardiovascular process works, not just that something changes; causal closure is present in the figure sequence
Paper contains differential expression, observational correlation, biomarker association, or phenotype description without closing the loop on mechanism
Evidence breadth
Evidence package combines complementary approaches: cell or molecular work, functional assays, in vivo validation, human tissue, or orthogonal mechanistic confirmation; evidence is proportionate to the claim
Mechanistic argument rests on one cell line, one mouse model, or one technique without orthogonal confirmation; single-system stories are harder here than at more specialized venues
Cardiovascular significance
Result matters to the broader cardiovascular biology community; significance case travels beyond one narrow specialist audience
Manuscript is solid within one very narrow subfield but cannot make a credible case that the finding advances cardiovascular understanding more broadly
Package stability
Figures carry the biological logic clearly; discussion stays proportionate; cover letter explains the mechanistic case specifically
Weak figure logic, abrupt discussion claims, underdeveloped controls, or a cover letter that sounds generic; at this level the package itself signals whether the paper is ready

How to frame the manuscript before upload

The framing should help the editor see three things quickly:

  • what biological problem the paper addresses
  • what the manuscript explains mechanistically
  • why that explanation matters to cardiovascular science now

That is a different framing from a general cardiology journal. You are not trying to sell immediate practice change. You are trying to show that the paper materially improves understanding of cardiovascular biology.

The easiest way to check that is to read only:

  • title
  • abstract
  • first figure
  • first paragraph of the discussion

If the mechanism still feels vague after that, the paper is not ready for this venue.

What a good cover letter should do

Your cover letter should not waste space flattering the journal. It should do four jobs.

Cover letter element
What to write
What to avoid
Mechanistic question
State in one sentence what biological cardiovascular problem the paper resolves: not what the paper studied, but what causal understanding improved
Describing the disease context and the experimental approach without naming the mechanism the paper actually establishes
Venue case
Explain why Circulation Research is the right home: basic cardiovascular mechanism, broad cardiovascular relevance, not primarily a clinical or epidemiological paper
Generic journal flattery or a venue case that would work equally for any AHA journal, regardless of whether the paper is mechanistic
Evidence package
Identify the specific elements that make the mechanism credible: complementary models, causal experiments, validation logic, and the scope of the biological implication
Claiming the evidence is comprehensive without specifying the orthogonal elements that distinguish the package from single-system work
Proportional significance
Commit to a specific mechanistic advance rather than broad disease relevance language
Promises about clinical translation or therapeutic potential that the current experimental work cannot support; editors flag overreach before it reaches reviewers

Where submissions lose the editor early

Failure mode
What it looks like
How to fix it
Paper still mostly descriptive
Manuscript contains modern assays and large datasets but does not close the loop on how the biology works; the mechanism is asserted in the discussion rather than demonstrated in the results
Add the causal experiments that connect the observation to the proposed mechanism; descriptive work that belongs in a different venue should be redirected rather than reframed
Story depends on one narrow model
Mechanism rests on one cell line, one mouse model, or one isolated assay without orthogonal confirmation; the breadth of the conclusion outpaces the breadth of the evidence
Identify the most critical alternative explanation and add the experiment that rules it out, or acknowledge the model limitation explicitly and adjust the claim level accordingly
Translational pitch outruns the basic science
Paper leans too hard on future therapeutic relevance before the underlying biology is established; the significance argument is clinical while the experimental work is still mechanistic scaffolding
Separate the mechanistic contribution from the translational aspiration; the basic science case should stand independently before clinical language is applied
Manuscript belongs in a clinical journal
Real story is patient association, risk prediction, registry analysis, or outcome comparison without a mechanistic experimental component that would justify a basic-science venue
Either add the mechanistic experimental work that would justify Circulation Research or redirect to Circulation, JACC, or the appropriate AHA clinical journal
Figures do not carry the argument
Cardiovascular biologist cannot follow the mechanistic logic from the figure panels alone; key steps are buried in supplementary material or dense methods sections
Restructure the figure sequence so the mechanism is legible from the main panels; supplement should support reproducibility, not carry the central argument

Submit If

  • the manuscript answers a mechanistic cardiovascular question
  • the evidence package is broader than one isolated model
  • the significance matters across cardiovascular biology
  • the title and abstract already make the mechanism visible
  • the paper reads like a finished biological story

Think Twice If

  • the abstract is mainly observational or descriptive, and the first figure does not explain how a cardiovascular process works
  • the story rests on one model, one sample type, or one assay without an orthogonal figure or table showing that the mechanism generalizes
  • the methods do not close the causal step, so reviewers would need to ask for the key perturbation, rescue, validation sample, or protocol-level control
  • the cover letter leans on clinical relevance because the manuscript does not yet provide a biological explanation of the cardiovascular mechanism

Comparison snapshot: where this fits versus nearby journals

Journal
Best fit
What usually loses fit
Circulation Research
Broad mechanistic cardiovascular biology
Purely clinical or descriptive work
Circulation
Clinical and translational cardiology with broad practice relevance
Basic mechanism without patient-facing consequence
JACC family
High-impact clinical cardiology and subspecialty practice
Basic science centered manuscripts
Cardiovascular Research
Strong cardiovascular mechanism with slightly broader translational flexibility
Papers needing the highest flagship-basic-science positioning

That table is often the real submission decision. If the paper is strongest as a mechanistic biology manuscript, Circulation Research makes sense. If the clinical consequence is the main story, it usually belongs elsewhere.

Final checklist before you upload

  • Is the manuscript clearly mechanistic from the title and abstract?
  • Are the claims proportional to the evidence?
  • Do the figures make the biological logic easy to follow?
  • Does the package feel complete without relying on future experiments?
  • Does the cover letter explain why this belongs in Circulation Research rather than a clinical cardiology journal?

If those answers are yes, the submission is much more likely to be treated as a serious fit rather than a fast editorial reject.

Before you upload, run your manuscript through a Circulation Research submission readiness check to catch the issues editors filter for on first read.

Official sources set the requirements, but the remaining question is manuscript fit. The review tells you whether your paper clears the Circulation Research fit check before upload, especially around descriptive cardiovascular association without causal mechanistic closure, single-model evidence stretched into a broad cardiovascular claim, and translational or clinical framing that outruns basic cardiovascular evidence. Paid Manusights reviews include a 60-day money-back guarantee, and we do not train models on submitted manuscripts.

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Decision risks before submitting to Circulation Research

Across cardiovascular manuscripts targeting Circulation Research, three desk-screen patterns recur because the journal is not a general cardiology outlet and not a descriptive translational-science venue. (Per AHA Circulation Research guidance and the journal's recent publication pattern, the paper has to read as causal cardiovascular biology: the abstract, first figure, methods, validation sample, controls, supplementary files, references, and cover letter all need to make the mechanism visible before the upload reaches the handling editor.) The patterns below are testable against your own manuscript before you commit the AHA journal page upload.

Descriptive cardiovascular association without causal mechanistic closure

Across cardiovascular manuscripts targeting Circulation Research, the most consistent failure mode is a paper whose disease association, omics signature, imaging readout, or phenotype is real but whose figure sequence still stops before mechanism. Circulation Research editors can usually see the gap in the abstract, Figure 1, methods, controls, and supplementary validation files.

The manuscript may show that a pathway, cell state, metabolite, transcript, electrophysiology feature, vascular phenotype, inflammatory program, or remodeling marker changes in disease, but it does not prove how that change drives the cardiovascular process.

Common component-level problems include a first figure that establishes association rather than causal direction, methods that rely on one perturbation without rescue, controls that rule out only the easiest alternative explanation, supplementary figures that bury the one mechanistic experiment, references that support plausibility rather than causality, and a cover letter that says "mechanistic insight" without naming the mechanism the paper actually establishes.

The fix is not cosmetic. The strongest Circulation Research-ready revision adds the decisive perturbation, rescue, knockout, dose-response, human-sample validation, orthogonal assay, or functional readout that connects molecular change to cardiovascular consequence.

If the paper remains primarily clinical association, biomarker discovery, or descriptive multi-omics after that check, the better redirect set is Circulation, JACC, European Heart Journal, Cardiovascular Research, Basic Research in Cardiology, or a specialty cardiovascular biology venue rather than Circulation Research.

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Single-model evidence stretched into a broad cardiovascular claim

For manuscripts targeting Circulation Research, the second recurring pattern is an evidence package whose central claim depends too heavily on one model system.

The figure may be attractive, the methods may be competent, and the biology may be plausible, but the manuscript asks Circulation Research to accept a field-level cardiovascular conclusion from one mouse strain, one induced pluripotent stem cell line, one cell culture condition, one inhibitor, one sex, one time point, or one assay family.

At this tier, the abstract and cover letter need to explain why the mechanism generalizes across the relevant cardiovascular context. Editors and reviewers look for named manuscript components that de-risk overreach: independent validation cohorts, sex-aware analyses where relevant, in vivo and ex vivo agreement, multiple perturbation directions, rescue experiments, blinded quantification, hemodynamic or electrophysiology confirmation, and supplementary sensitivity tests.

When those components are missing, the discussion often overcompensates by promising therapeutic translation that the current figures cannot support. A realistic fix is to lower the claim, add orthogonal validation, or redirect.

Papers that remain narrow but solid may fit Cardiovascular Research, JACC: Basic to Translational Science, Basic Research in Cardiology, American Journal of Physiology Heart and Circulatory Physiology, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, or Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology. A Circulation Research submission should make the model breadth proportionate to the claim before upload, not after reviewer request.

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Translational or clinical framing that outruns basic cardiovascular evidence

Across Circulation Research-targeted manuscripts, the third pattern is a strong preclinical or patient-linked story framed as if it already supports a therapeutic, diagnostic, or practice-changing conclusion. Circulation Research can publish translationally meaningful work, but the title, abstract, methods, limitations, references, and cover letter still need to place the basic cardiovascular mechanism first.

The problem appears when the cover letter foregrounds future treatment, risk stratification, or clinical adoption while the figures mostly establish pathway behavior in a limited experimental setting. Reviewers then read the manuscript as overclaiming, even when the underlying biology is promising.

The manuscript components to audit are concrete: does the abstract name the mechanistic question before the translational promise; does the methods section include controls that separate mechanism from correlation; do the figures show functional consequence rather than only expression change; do the supplementary tables document sample inclusion, exclusion, and validation logic; do references compare against recent Circulation Research and Cardiovascular Research papers rather than broad clinical cardiology citations;

does the cover letter explain why Circulation Research is the right home instead of Circulation, JACC, European Heart Journal, JACC: Basic to Translational Science, Cardiovascular Research, or Nature Cardiovascular Research.

The fix is usually to right-size the claim: lead with the cardiovascular biology the manuscript proves now, state the translational implication as bounded, and keep limitations explicit. That posture reads stronger to Circulation Research editors than a clinical promise that the current package cannot yet defend.

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Additional pre-submission review patterns for Circulation Research

For Circulation Research-targeted manuscripts, three patterns consistently predict desk-screen failure at Circulation Research (American Heart Association). The patterns below are the same ones the journal's handling editors and outside reviewers flag at first-pass triage.

Scope-fit ambiguity in the abstract. Circulation Research editors move fastest on manuscripts whose contribution is obviously aligned with cardiovascular basic-science research with mechanistic depth and translational implications. The named failure pattern: mechanism-only cardiovascular papers without translational-implication framing extend revision rounds. Check whether your abstract reads to Circulation Research's scope

Methods package incomplete for the journal's reviewer pool. Circulation Research reviewers expect specific methodological detail. Preliminary mechanistic claims without in-vivo validation extend reviewer consultation. Check if your methods package is reviewer-complete

Reference-list and clean-citation failure mode. Editorial team at Circulation Research (American Heart Association) screens reference lists for retracted-paper inclusion. Check whether your reference list is clean against Crossref + Retraction Watch

Editorial evidence signal for Circulation Research (American Heart Association). Our review of public author guidance, recent published article packages, and Manusights pre-submission review patterns points to this practical risk: Circulation research reviewers expect both mechanistic depth and translational-implication framing; mechanism-only papers without translational pathway extend revision. Treat this as a fit-and-artifact screen rather than a private outcome claim; official journal pages remain authoritative for submission mechanics and policy requirements.

Next steps before you submit

Good journal verdict: Is Circulation Research a Good Journal? An Honest Assessment

Submission strategy: How to Choose the Right Journal for Your Paper

Readiness check: 10 Signs Your Paper Isn't Ready to Submit

If you want a pressure test before you submit, Manusights can review whether your manuscript really clears the mechanistic depth and evidence bar that Circulation Research editors expect.

Frequently asked questions

Circulation Research uses the AHA (American Heart Association) submission system. Prepare a manuscript with mechanistic depth, cardiovascular significance, and a clear cover letter framing the contribution. Upload through the journal portal with complete supporting materials.

Circulation Research wants papers with mechanistic depth in cardiovascular biology. The journal is an AHA flagship requiring genuine mechanistic understanding of cardiovascular disease, not just correlative or descriptive findings.

Circulation Research is a selective AHA journal. The editorial screen focuses on mechanistic depth, cardiovascular relevance, and scope fit. Papers must demonstrate genuine mechanistic contribution to cardiovascular understanding.

Common reasons include insufficient mechanistic depth, weak cardiovascular relevance, narrow scope without broader significance, and common submission mistakes in cover-letter framing or scope positioning. The desk reject decision arrives quickly when papers stop at correlation without mechanistic closure.

Circulation Research first-decision triage typically returns in 4 to 6 weeks; papers passing desk go to 2 to 3 reviewers and return reports in 6 to 10 weeks. The format requirement is the AHA template with a 250-word structured abstract, 5500-word main-text cap, AHA reference style, ORCID for all authors, and AHA reporting checklist matched to study type.

Circulation Research operates an AHA hybrid open-access model. Subscription publication carries no author charge; the gold open-access option carries an APC fee covered by many institutional read-and-publish agreements with AHA Journals.

References

Sources

  1. Circulation Research - Author Guidelines
  2. Circulation Research - Manuscript Submission
  3. Circulation Research - Journal Homepage
  4. Circulation Research Editorial Manager portal
  5. AHA Journals open access fees
  6. Clarivate Journal Citation Reports (JCR 2024)

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