Academic Journal
Q1Heart
About Heart
Heart is a scholarly journal published by BMJ Publishing Group. SCImago 2025 places it in Q1 with an SJR of 1.559 and an H-index of 221.
Its listed coverage is 1942, 1971-1978, 1983-1984, 1986-1990, 1992-2026 and its research categories include Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (Q1). The 2025 dataset reports 304 documents and 3052 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Congenital Heart Disease Studies, Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments, Acute Myocardial Infarction Research.
Recent Research Articles
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Direct transfer to primary percutaneous coronary intervention centres following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: longer term outcomes and influences on survival
Alexander Hunt, Steven Scholfield, Joseph Morris, Nicholas Lim et al.
2026-09-07 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328408Geographic variation in long-term health outcomes following myocardial infarction in England
Charlotte Sturley, Tamara del Toro, Jonathan A Batty, Eleanor Booth et al.
2026-08-31 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2025-327671Biological uncertainty cannot be eliminated by diagnostic certainty: the Heisenberg problem of occlusive myocardial infarction
Emre Aslanger
2026-08-31 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328887Optical coherence tomography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in multivessel coronary disease with complex lesions
In Tae Jin, Seung-Jun Lee, Jong-Young Lee, Sang-Min Kim et al.
2026-08-26 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328499Prevalence, burden and manifestation of atrial fibrillation: a large-scale analysis of cardiac patch monitors
Sophie Sigfstead, David Newman, Isabelle Nault, David Gladstone et al.
2026-08-26 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328587Evaluating the use of proactive surveillance and remote patient monitoring to guide the timing of valve intervention in patients with severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis (APRAISE-AS): results of a pilot randomised controlled trial
Nazish Khan, Richard P Steeds, Samir Mehta, Yongzhong Sun et al.
2026-08-25 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-327782Palpitations and progressive left ventricular dysfunction in a young woman
Tiange Li, Yabo Wang, Yunfei Ling
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328255Weight loss as a marker of successful decongestion during acute heart failure hospitalisation
Mikael Erhardsson, Lars H Lund, Lina Benson, Gianluigi Savarese et al.
2026-08-25 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328175Beyond imaging: how should we assess patients with aortic stenosis?
Lojien Moharram, Sean Coffey
2026-08-25 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328687Distinct relationships of compartment-specific fat distribution profiles with cardiovascular ageing and future cardiovascular events
Cynthia Maldonado-Garcia, Ahmed M Salih, Stefan Neubauer, Steffen E Petersen et al.
2026-08-25 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-327946How short is short enough? Reframing dual antiplatelet therapy duration in the contemporary percutaneous coronary intervention era
Giampiero Vizzari, Gabriele Carciotto, Antonio Micari
2026-08-24 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328515Valvular involvement, phenotypic heterogeneity and outcomes in adults with left-to-right shunt congenital heart disease
Dongling Luo, Hezhi Li, Xiaoshan Li, Ziyang Yang et al.
2026-08-21 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328500Artificial intelligence based multimodal fusion of electronic medical record data and ECG signals for pericarditis prediction: pericarditis calculator (p-Cal) as a screening aid
Chadi Ayoub, Jialu Pi, Milagros Pereyra, Juan M Farina et al.
2026-08-20 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2025-327090From pattern recognition to clinical suspicion: can multimodal artificial intelligence help uncover pericarditis?
Massimo Imazio
2026-08-20 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328703Prognostic and exploratory neurohormonal correlates of hypochloraemia in heart failure: a multicentre cohort study
Kohei Inukai, Mikito Takefuji, Shingo Kazama, Ryota Ito et al.
2026-08-20 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328053Peer review without the expert: artificial intelligence-assisted reviewing and the cost to science
Shishir Rao, Kazem Rahimi
2026-08-18 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328603Lamin A/C cardiomyopathy and heart transplantation: reassuring outcomes, higher stakes in electrical storm
Rodrigue Garcia
2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328574NT-proBNP in relation to clinical characteristics and cardiovascular outcomes in non-anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation
Maria Tomasdottir, Jonas Oldgren, Johan Lindbäck, Alexander Benz et al.
2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328033Diagnosis is not enough: the missing step in acute aortic dissection care
Farhin Holia, Christoph Nienaber, Aung Oo
2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328216General practitioners referring for coronary calcium scoring for suspected angina: any CONCRETE evidence?
Christiaan Vrints, Simon Winther
2026-08-16 · DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2026-328613Reviews
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