About
Acceptance rate:
50%
Time to first decision with review:
45 days*
Time from acceptance to publication:
25 days*
Impact Factor:
2.8
Citescore:
4.6
Citescore rank:
133/387
Aims and scope
Open Heart is an online-only, open access cardiology journal that 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 study protocols to phase I trials to meta-analyses, including small or specialist studies. Opinionated discussions on controversial topics are welcomed.
Open Heart aims to operate a fast submission and review process with continuous publication online, to ensure timely, up-to-date research is available worldwide. The journal adheres to a rigorous and transparent peer review process, and all articles go through a statistical assessment to ensure robustness of the analyses. Open Heart is the open access companion journal to Heart. The journal adheres to the highest possible industry standards concerning publication ethics.
Open Heart is an official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society.
Editorial Board
For information about the Open Heart Editor-in-Chief Professor Ganesan Karthikeyan and his editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Ownership
Open Heart is co-owned by the British Cardiovascular Society and BMJ.
Journal information
Publication model
Open access
Frequency
Continuous online publication
Launch date
2014
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Emerging Sources Citation Index, Medline, PubMed Central, Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), DOAJ, Google Scholar
Peer review model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Online ISSN
2053-3624
Journal Statistics 2023
Acceptance rate: 50%
Speed
Time to first decision without review (median): 7 days
Time to first decision with review (median): 45 days
Time from acceptance to publication (median): 25 days
Impact
Impact Factor category: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
Impact Factor (JCR): 2.8
5 year Impact Factor: 2.9
Journal Citation Indicator: 0.69
Eigenfactor: 0.00684
Citescore: 4.6
Citescore rank: 133/387
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.043
Reach
Total content views: 671,962
Total Altmetric mentions: 4,438
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
Contact Information
For all contact information please refer to the contact us page.
For Authors
Please refer to the instructions for authors
To advertise
Rights and Permissions
Affiliations
The BMJ Publishing Group 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 accurate, transparent reporting of research studies. The BMJ Publishing Group 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.