''Circulation Research'' is a biweekly

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published by

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an American imprint (trade name), imprint of the American Dutch publishing conglomerate Wolters Kluwer. It was established by the acquisition of Williams & Wilkins and its merger with J.B. Lippincott Company ...

. It is the official journal of the

American Heart Association The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that funds cardiovascular medical research, educates consumers on healthy living and fosters appropriate Heart, cardiac care in an effort to reduce disability ...

and its Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences. The journal covers research on all aspects of the

cardiovascular system In vertebrates, the circulatory system is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the body. It includes the cardiovascular system, or vascular system, that consists of the heart a ...

History

The journal was established in 1953 by Carl J. Wiggers. The following people have been

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Abstracting and indexing

This journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2018

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of 15.862.

References

External links

* Cardiology journals English-language journals Academic journals established in 1953 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins academic journals Biweekly journals American Heart Association academic journals {{Cardiology-journal-stub