Circulation Reports (Circ Rep) Vol. 1 Message From the Editor-in-Chief

Abstract

Welcome to Circulation Reports (Circ Rep). As reported by the Editor-in-Chief of the Circulation Journal (Vol. 81, Issue 1, 2017), the inaugural issue of Circulation Reports (Circ Rep), a new on-line only, Open Access Journal, was published on January 10, 2019. Circulation Reports (Circ Rep) is a sister journal of the Circulation Journal, an official Journal of the Japanese Circulation Society. In this preparation issue, I will describe how and why the new journal is to be launched and what types of manuscripts will be published.