About
Acceptance rate:
22%
Time to first decision:
3 days*
Time to first decision with review:
27 days*
Acceptance to publication:
22 days*
Impact Factor (JCR):
5.7
Citescore:
10.4
Aims and scope
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
Plan S compliance
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.
Journal information
Ownership
Heart is co-owned by the British Cardiovascular Society and BMJ
Publication Model
Subscription; with hybrid open access option
Frequency
Biweekly
Launch date
1939
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded; BIOSIS Preview, Current Contents: Clinical Medicine, Life Sciences; MEDLINE (Index Medicus), PubMed Central (BMJ Open Access Special Collection), Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), CINAHL, Google Scholar
Peer Review Model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Print ISSN
1355-6037
Online ISSN
1468-201X
Journal Statistics 2023
Acceptance rate: 22%
Speed
Time to first decision without review (median): 3 days
Time to first decision with review (median): 27 days
Time from acceptance to publication (median): 22 days
Impact
Impact Factor category: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
Impact Factor (JCR): 5.7
Impact Factor rank: 36/142
5 year Impact Factor: 5.9
Journal Citation Indicator: 1.42
Eigenfactor: 0.02357
Citescore: 10.4
Citescore rank: 29/354
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.877
Reach
Total content views: 1.99 million
Total Altmetric mentions: 9,708
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 member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting transparent, accurate reporting of research studies. BMJ is a sponsor of its activities.
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.