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.[1] The name was changed from British Heart JournaltoHeart in 1996 with the start of volume 75. The editor-in-chiefisCatherine Otto (University of Washington).[1]
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| Discipline | Cardiology |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Catherine Otto |
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Former name(s) | British Heart Journal |
| History | 1939-present |
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| Frequency | Biweekly |
| Hybrid | |
| 5.7 (2022) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Heart |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus | |
| CODEN | HEARFR |
| ISSN | 1355-6037 (print) 1468-201X (web) |
| OCLC no. | 34055332 |
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A sister journal, Open Heart, was established in 2010 with the aim of covering cardiovascular research with less emphasis on novelty or priority.[2]
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] In 2019, the journal ceased publication.
The journal is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus, Science Citation Index Expanded, EMBASE, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2022 impact factor is 5.7, ranking it 36th out of 142 journals in the category "Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems".[4]
The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:
According to Scopus, the following three articles from Heart have been cited most often (>700 times):[5]
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