Academic journal
Heart 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] British Heart Journal to Heart in 1996 with the start of volume 75. The editor-in-chief is Kazem Rahimi (University of Oxford).[ 1]
A sister journal, Open Heart [ 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]
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 impact factor is 5.1, ranking it 38th out of 222 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]
Day CP, McComb JM, Campbell RW (June 1990). "QT dispersion: an indication of arrhythmia risk in patients with long QT intervals" . British Heart Journal . 63 (6): 342– 4. doi :10.1136/hrt.63.6.342 . PMC 1024518 PMID 2375895 . Jenni R, Oechslin E, Schneider J, Attenhofer Jost C, Kaufmann PA (December 2001). "Echocardiographic and pathoanatomical characteristics of isolated left ventricular non-compaction: a step towards classification as a distinct cardiomyopathy" . Heart . 86 (6): 666– 71. doi :10.1136/heart.86.6.666 . PMC 1730012 PMID 11711464 . Wilkins GT, Weyman AE, Abascal VM, Block PC, Palacios IF (October 1988). "Percutaneous balloon dilatation of the mitral valve: an analysis of echocardiographic variables related to outcome and the mechanism of dilatation" . British Heart Journal . 60 (4): 299– 308. doi :10.1136/hrt.60.4.299 . PMC 1216577 PMID 3190958 .
References
^ a b Heart Homepage^ 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 ^ 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 1 November 2024). PMC 4898489 PMID 27325924 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024 (link )^ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems". 2023 Journal Citation Reports Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate . 2024. ^ "Scopus search for Heart articles" . Scopus . Retrieved 3 April 2018 .
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