About

Heart is an international peer reviewed journal that keeps cardiologists up to date with important research advances in cardiovascular disease. New scientific developments are highlighted in editorials and put in context with concise review articles. There is one free Editor’s Choice article in each issue, with open access options available to authors for all articles. Education in Heart articles provide a comprehensive, continuously updated, cardiology curriculum. Heart promotes active interchange among researchers and readers to come together as a community to advance science and improve patient care via regular free audio podcasts, letters to the Editor, and news via Twitter and Facebook.

Heart is an official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society and is endorsed by the following societies:

• British Cardiovascular Intervention Society
• British Congenital Cardiac Association
• British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging
• British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
• British Society for Cardiovascular Research
• Irish Cardiac Society

Heart is the flagship of BMJ's cardiology portfolio and has an open access companion journal, Open Heart. For information about the Heart Editor-in-Chief Catherine Otto and her editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.

Heartis a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal. Transformative Journals are one of the compliance routes offered by cOAlition S funders, such as Wellcome, WHO and UKRI. Find out more about Transformative Journals and  Plan S compliance on our Author Hub.

Heart is co-owned by the British Cardiovascular Society and BMJ

Subscription; with hybrid open access option

Biweekly

1939

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Single blind; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author

1355-6037

1468-201X

Acceptance rate: 21%

Speed Time to first decision: 12 days (mean) Time from acceptance to publication: 25 days (mean)

Impact Impact Factor category: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems Impact Factor (JCR): 5.994 Impact Factor rank: 31/142 5 year Impact Factor: 6.308 Journal Citation Indicator: 1.33 Eigenfactor: 0.02849 Citescore: 9.0 Citescore rank: 26/317 Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 2.184

Reach 2020 total content views: 954,670 2020 total Altmetric mentions: 8,245

The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure. How we get these metrics

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BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.

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