Heart (journal)
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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 19391 as the British Heart Journal and is published by the BMJ Group. The name was changed from British Heart Journal to Heart in 1996 with the start of volume 75. The editor-in-chief is Kazem Rahimi (University of Oxford). A sister journal, Open Heart, was established in 20101 with the aim of covering cardiovascular research with less emphasis on novelty or priority.
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. The name was changed from British Heart Journal to Heart in 1996 with the start of volume 75. The editor-in-chief is Kazem Rahimi (University of Oxford). A sister journal, Open Heart, was established in 2010 with the aim of covering cardiovascular research with less emphasis on novelty or priority.
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. 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 2023 impact factor is 5.1, ranking it 38th out of 222 journals in the category "Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems".
Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: Davis Evan Bedford, John Maurice Hardman Campbell 1939-? K. Shirley Smith ?-1972 Walter Somerville 1973-? Roger Hall ?-2006 Adam Timmis 2007-2013 Catherine Otto 2014 - 2023 Kazem Rahimi 2023 - present
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