Heart (formerly British Heart Journal) is an international peer review journal that aims to keep cardiologists up to date with advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Topics covered include coronary disease, electrophysiology, valve disease, imaging techniques, congenital heart disease (fetal, paediatric and adult), heart failure, surgery and basic science.

Each issue contains an extensive continuing professional education section (Education in Heart) as well as JournalScan highlighting important papers from outside the cardiology literature. Most issues contain a mini-symposium which is 3 to 5 editorial length articles that focus on specific areas of cardiological interest; they are coordinated by a guest editor who is a recognised expert in the field.

Heart is the official journal of the British Cardiac Society and has been published since the 1930s.

Heart is an international peer review journal that aims to keep cardiologists and others up to date with advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease using a balance of the highest quality original and commissioned material. The journal’s prime audience is practising cardiologists and researchers worldwide, but it also endeavours to fulfil the needs of cardiologists in training as well as more general practitioners who deal with cardiovascular conditions. Heart has a very active commissioning strategy of editorials and other articles to augment to the original research which is published as full papers as well as brief scientific letters.

The journal attempts to handle the review process and publication as expeditiously as possible. The time from submission to first decision is about 8 weeks (see Peer Review).

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1. Median time from submission to first decision = 5 weeks
   1. X% of papers rejected without external peer review within X week
2. Time from acceptance to publication = 4 months
   1. Full original articles published Online First within 2 weeks