Heart
DisciplineCardiology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byCatherine Otto
Publication details
Former name(s)
British Heart Journal
History1939-present
Publisher
FrequencyBiweekly
Hybrid
5.7 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Heart
Indexing
CODENHEARFR
ISSN1355-6037 (print)
1468-201X (web)
OCLC no.34055332
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Heart is a biweekly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all areas of cardiovascular medicine and surgery. It is the official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society. It was established in 1939 as the British Heart Journal and is published by the BMJ Group.[1] The name was changed from British Heart Journal to Heart in 1996 with the start of volume 75. The editor-in-chief is Catherine Otto (University of Washington).[1]

A sister journal, Open Heart, was established in 2010 with the aim of covering cardiovascular research with less emphasis on novelty or priority.[2]

History

In 2010, Heart established a sister journal, Heart Asia. It was the official journal of the Asia Pacific Heart Association and aimed to focus on cardiovascular research in the Asia Pacific region.[3] In 2019, the journal ceased publication.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus, Science Citation Index Expanded, EMBASE, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2022 impact factor is 5.7, ranking it 36th out of 142 journals in the category "Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems".[4]

Editors-in-chief

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

Most cited articles

According to Scopus, the following three articles from Heart have been cited most often (>700 times):[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Heart Homepage
  2. ^ Meier P, Fröhlich GM, Knapp G, Mohiddin S, Goldacre B, Wang D, Kustosz C, DiNicolantonio JJ, Ebrahim S (2013-12-01). "Open Heart – The new BMJ cardiovascular journal, advocating open access, open peer-review and open data". Open Heart. 1 (1): e000007. doi:10.1136/openhrt-2013-000007.
  3. ^ Lim, Michael C L (2009). "A new journal focusing on cardiovascular disease in the Asia Pacific region". Heart Asia. 1 (1): 38. doi:10.1136/ha.2009.000539 (inactive 31 January 2024). PMC 4898489. PMID 27325924.((cite journal)): CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
  4. ^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems". 2022 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2023.
  5. ^ "Scopus search for Heart articles". Scopus. Retrieved 3 April 2018.

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