Open Heart

is an open access journal by BMJ and BCS, publishing original research in cardiovascular medicine.

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Open Heart is dedicated to publishing high quality, peer reviewed medical research in all disciplines and therapeutic areas of cardiovascular medicine. Research is published across all study phases and designs, from protocols to phase I trials to meta-analyses, including small or specialist studies. Opinionated discussions on controversial topics are welcomed.

Open Heart is an official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society.

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Editor-in-Chief: Dr Pascal Meier, Hospital of Graubunden (Switzerland) and Royal Brompton Hospital (UK)
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Open Heart is seeking submissions for a Topic Collection on the theme of 'Heart Failure: Improving Implementation of Advanced Guideline-Recommended Therapies'. Find out more and how to submit.

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Open Heart considers submissions of a variety of article types, including original research articles, study protocols and occasional review articles. Responses to published work are also welcomed.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

This is an open access journal that levies an Article Publishing Charge (APC). Discounts and waivers are available; details are provided in the Author Information section.

All manuscripts should be submitted online.

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New Editor-in-Chief appointed for 2024

We are delighted to announce that Professor Ganesan Karthikeyan from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi has been appointed as the incoming Editor-in-Chief for Open Heart. He will officially start his term in January 2024, replacing Professor Pascal Meier.

Professor Karthikeyan is a clinical, interventional cardiologist and a Senior International Fellow of the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University in Canada, as well as Professor of Cardiology at AIIMS.

His research is mainly focused on cardiovascular diseases affecting low and middle income countries, including valvular heart disease, particularly rheumatic heart disease (RHD), mechanical valve thrombosis, anticoagulation, and indigenous drug-eluting stents.

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