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A Call to Make the Human Dimension of Science a Core Component of Scientific Journals.

The human dimension of science refers to the personal aspects of investigators—their life experiences, values, beliefs, habits, behaviors, philosophy of life, approach to challenges and setbacks, and so on. Although this aspect of the research enterprise is the engine that propels scientific progress (and thus is at least as important as the discoveries themselves), it is usually ignored in the literature. As a result, the community of researchers knows the discovery (the tip of the iceberg), but not the foundation that made the discovery possible. In this essay, I argue that the human dimension of science should become a core component of scientific journals. 

Since the inception of the current editorship in July 2009, Circulation Research has undergone a major transformation—shall we say, a revolution? The number and magnitude of the changes made have been even greater than those I articulated in my manifesto back in 2010.1 Of all of these changes, perhaps the one I am most proud of is that I have expanded the mission of the journal from being a vehicle of impactful scientific knowledge to being both a vehicle of impactful scientific knowledge and a repository of impactful human content. This dual mission places Circulation Research in a rather unique positions because the former content (scientific knowledge) is common to all biomedical journals but the latter (human content) is rarely found in the biomedical literature, yet, it is just as important to scientific progress.

Indeed, I believe that a journal should not only disseminate important new discoveries but also reveal the human factors that make those discoveries possible in the first place. If the ultimate goal of scientific publishing is to advance science, then journals must inform their readers not only about what investigators have discovered but also about how and why they were able …