Dear colleagues, In recognition of your research field, we are pleased to introduce to you a new open access journal: “Visual Informatics” ( https://www.journals.elsevier.com/visual-informatics/ ), which is mainly concerned with the theory and algorithms on perception based visual information modeling, synthesis and processing. Visual Informatics is a peer-reviewed, online journal with open access to the academic community,published by Elsevier,and spoonsored by Zhejiang University. The highlights of its special issue are attached below for you reference: 1. A Visual Analytics System to Support the Formation of a Hypothesis from Calcium Waves Data Kozen Umezawa, Hiroaki Natsukawa, Yosuke Onoue, Koji Koyamada 2. MultiSciView: Multivariate Scientific X-ray Image Visual Exploration with Cross-Data Space Views Wen Zhong, Wei Xu, Kevin G. Yager, Gregory S. Doerk, ... Kerstin Kleese Van Dam 3. An Uncertainty-aware Workflow for Keyhole Surgery Planning using Hierarchical Image Semantics Christina Gillmann, Robin G.C. Maack, Tobias Post, Thomas Wischgoll, Hans Hagen 4. MessageLens: A Visual Analytics System to Support Multifaceted Exploration of MOOC Forum Discussions Jian-Syuan Wong, Xiaolong “Luke” Zhang 5. Metro-Wordle: An Interactive Visualization for Urban Text Distributions based on Wordle Chenlu Li, Xiaoju Dong, Xiaoru Yuan 6. TideGrapher: Visual Analytics of Tactical Situations for Rugby Matches Yusuke Ishikawa, Issei fujishiro 7. VisComposer: A Visual Programmable Composition Environment for Information Visualization Honghui Mei, Wei Chen, Yuxin Ma, Huihua Guan, Wanqi Hu 8. LongLine: Visual Analytics System for Large-scale Audit Logs Seunghoon Yoo, Jaemin Jo, Bohyoung Kim, Jinwook Seo 9. A Visual Analytics System for Optimizing the Performance of Large-Scale Networks in Supercomputing Systems Takanori Fujiwara, Jianping Kelvin Li, Misbah Mubarak, Caitlin Ross, ... Kwan-Liu Ma https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/visual-informatics/vol/2/issue/1 Visual Informatics is launched by State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University in cooperation with Elsevier. We look forward to your kind attention and contribution to this new journal! With best regards! Editorial Office of Visual Informatics