Heart (journal)
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{{Infobox journal
| title = Heart
| cover = New Heart cover.tif
| editor = Kazem Rahimi
| discipline = Cardiology
| formernames = British Heart Journal
| abbreviation = Heart
| publisher = BMJ Group
| country =
| frequency = Biweekly
| history = 1939-present
| openaccess = Hybrid
| license =
| impact = 5.1
| impact-year = 2023
| website = http://heart.bmj.com
| link1 = http://heart.bmj.com/content/current
| link1-name = Online access
| link2 = http://heart.bmj.com/content/
| link2-name = Online archive
| JSTOR =
| OCLC = 34055332
| LCCN =
| CODEN = HEARFR
| ISSN = 1355-6037
| eISSN = 1468-201X
}}
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.[http://heart.bmj.com Heart Homepage] 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.{{Cite journal |last1=Meier |first1=Pascal |last2=Fröhlich |first2=Georg M. |last3=Knapp |first3=Guido |last4=Mohiddin |first4=Saidi |last5=Goldacre |first5=Ben |last6=Wang |first6=Duolao |last7=Kustosz |first7=Christoph |last8=DiNicolantonio |first8=James J. |last9=Ebrahim |first9=Shah |name-list-style=vanc |date=2013-12-01 |title=Open Heart – The new BMJ cardiovascular journal, advocating open access, open peer-review and open data |url=http://openheart.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000007 |journal=Open Heart |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=e000007 |doi=10.1136/openhrt-2013-000007 |doi-access=free}}
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.{{Cite journal |last=Lim |first=Michael C L |date=2009 |title=A new journal focusing on cardiovascular disease in the Asia Pacific region |journal=Heart Asia |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=38|doi=10.1136/ha.2009.000539 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |pmid=27325924 |pmc=4898489}} 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".{{cite book |title=2023 Journal Citation Reports |title-link=Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |year=2024 |edition=Science |series=Web of Science |chapter=Journals Ranked by Impact: 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
Most cited articles
According to Scopus, the following three articles from Heart have been cited most often (>700 times):{{Cite web |url=https://www.scopus.com |title=Scopus search for Heart articles |website=Scopus |access-date=3 April 2018}}
- {{cite journal |vauthors=Day CP, McComb JM, Campbell RW |title=QT dispersion: an indication of arrhythmia risk in patients with long QT intervals |journal=British Heart Journal |volume=63 |issue=6 |pages=342–4 |date=June 1990 |pmid=2375895 |pmc=1024518 |doi=10.1136/hrt.63.6.342}}
- {{cite journal |vauthors=Jenni R, Oechslin E, Schneider J, Attenhofer Jost C, Kaufmann PA |title=Echocardiographic and pathoanatomical characteristics of isolated left ventricular non-compaction: a step towards classification as a distinct cardiomyopathy |journal=Heart |volume=86 |issue=6 |pages=666–71 |date=December 2001 |pmid=11711464 |pmc=1730012 |doi=10.1136/heart.86.6.666 }}
- {{cite journal |vauthors=Wilkins GT, Weyman AE, Abascal VM, Block PC, Palacios IF |title=Percutaneous balloon dilatation of the mitral valve: an analysis of echocardiographic variables related to outcome and the mechanism of dilatation |journal=British Heart Journal |volume=60 |issue=4 |pages=299–308 |date=October 1988 |pmid=3190958 |pmc=1216577 |doi=10.1136/hrt.60.4.299}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|url=http://heart.bmj.com}}
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Category:Academic journals established in 1939
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