Heart (journal)

*Heart*
Discipline	Cardiology
Language	English
Edited by	Catherine Otto
Publication details
Former name(s)	British Heart Journal
History	1939-present
Publisher	BMJ Group
Frequency	Biweekly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	5.7 (2022)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Heart
Indexing;
CODEN	HEARFR
ISSN	1355-6037 (print); 1468-201X (web);
OCLC no.	34055332
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; Online archive;

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 Journal to Heart in 1996 with the start of volume 75. The editor-in-chief is Catherine Otto (University of Washington).^[1]

A sister journal, Open Heart, was established in 2010 with the aim of covering cardiovascular research with less emphasis on novelty or priority.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Heart Homepage
^ Meier P, Fröhlich GM, Knapp G, Mohiddin S, Goldacre B, Wang D, Kustosz C, DiNicolantonio JJ, Ebrahim S (2013-12-01). "Open Heart – The new BMJ cardiovascular journal, advocating open access, open peer-review and open data". Open Heart. 1 (1): e000007. doi:10.1136/openhrt-2013-000007.

[Heart-1] Heart Homepage

[2] Meier P, Fröhlich GM, Knapp G, Mohiddin S, Goldacre B, Wang D, Kustosz C, DiNicolantonio JJ, Ebrahim S (2013-12-01). "Open Heart – The new BMJ cardiovascular journal, advocating open access, open peer-review and open data". Open Heart. 1 (1): e000007. doi:10.1136/openhrt-2013-000007.

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