Summary and Central Figure

Authors of all manuscripts accepted for the publication in Circulation Journal are required to provide a short summary and a central figure of the manuscript, as stated in our Instructions to Authors as below:

Instructions to Authors

XI. Manuscript Summary and Central Figure
Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to provide a short summary and a central figure of their manuscript at the same timing of their proof reading. Central figure should hopefully be an image newly created to summarize the whole content of their manuscript, however, most important one of the tables/figures in their manuscript could be also used. The manuscript’s summary and central figure would be posted on the Japanese Circulation Society’s official Twitter account (https://twitter.com/JCIRC_IPR) with the manuscript’s DOI and journal’s hashtag, for the purpose of capturing the attention of a wide readership to increase traffic to their manuscript. More details and sample central figures are available on our website (https://www.j-circ.or.jp/english/cj/summary-and-central-figure/).

Central Figure Details

・Pixel　…　 Up to 4096 pixel
・Ratio　…　 16 : 9 (horizontal : vertical)
・File size　…　 Up to 5 MB
・File types　…　 PNG or JPG

Central Figure Samples

Why required?

As an author, your subject-matter expertise makes you ideally placed to promote your paper’s content on social media. This doesn’t mean much, however, unless the community you want to reach sees the interesting and relevant posts you can craft around your paper’s content. On Twitter, for example, the posts at the top of people’s feeds are from the profiles most likely to interest them, based on each social network’s algorithm. So even if a person follows your account, they might not see the content you post unless you have proven yourself relevant and engaging. The Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) would like to help you with: how to cut through the noise and make sure your messages get seen by the right audience. JCS has a clear social media strategy and engagement across a range of platforms and channels. Furthermore, JCS works with Community and Information Committee and official journal editors to reach a global digital audience daily through a network of subject- and audience- focused accounts that stretch across Twitter. JCS will tweet the summarized message and central figure of your paper on our official twitter account (@JCIRC_IPR) with the official hashtag of the journal; Circulation Journal (#circ_j) or Circulation Reports (#circ_rep). We are sure that these projects will increase Altmetric score and number of citations of your paper.

How to Submit

Manuscript summary and central figure should be provided from a specific submission site for an accepted paper no later than completion of their proof-reading process. The specific URL is shared in a request email of proof-reading from our printing company.