
Heart Journal
Heart Journal

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
Heart is the flagship of BMJ’s cardiology portfolio and has an open access companion journal, Open Heart.
For information about the Heart Editor-in-Chief Catherine Otto and her editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
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.
Listen to the Heart Podcast, which is published twice a month, and subscribe in all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify.
Heart is an official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society.
Editor-in-Chief: Professor Catherine Otto, University of Washington, USA
Editorial team
Latest Articles
CARDIOLOGY IN FOCUS:
Did the ‘Digital Experience’ improve women’s representation at the European Society of Cardiology congress?
25 February, 2022 ![]()
REVIEW:
Exercise prescription in individuals with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: what clinicians need to know
23 February, 2022
CARDIAC RISK FACTORS AND PREVENTION:
Prospective analysis of gender-related characteristics in relation to cardiovascular disease
23 February, 2022
CARDIAC RISK FACTORS AND PREVENTION:
Association between age at onset of overweight and risk of hypertension across adulthood
21 February, 2022 ![]()
VALVULAR HEART DISEASE:
Risk of infective endocarditis after surgical and transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Source: http://heart.bmj.com/