About Hearts

Aims

Hearts (ISSN 2673-3846) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides an advanced forum for studies related to cardiology and cardiovascular surgery. It publishes the highest-quality material covering basic, translational, and clinical research, in all areas of innovative science for cardiovascular medicine and at the interface of related disciplines. The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, position papers and guideline documents, proceedings papers, letters, and communications.

This journal is aimed at a wide audience of both practicing clinicians and researchers, including cardiologists, cardiac and vascular surgeons, anesthesiologists, electrophysiologists, clinical physiology experts, interventionalists, angiologists, specialists in internal medicine, pediatrics, nurses, and others interested in cardiovascular medicine. The full experimental details must be provided so that results can be reproduced. Therefore, the journal has no restrictions regarding the length of papers. Electronic files regarding the full details of the experimental procedure, if unable to be included in the main text, can be deposited as supplementary material.

Scope

Subject Areas: Heart and Vessels 

Cardiovascular Diseases

  • Heart disease and failure
  • Cardiovascular disease and health
  • Valvular heart disease
  • Neurovascular and neurodegenerative diseases
  • Treatments and diagnostic testing

Basic and Translational Research

  • Mechanistic studies
  • Genetics, omics, and tissue regeneration
  • Ischemia and reperfusion injury
  • Inflammation

Clinical Research

  • Cardiology
  • Cardiac surgery
  • Vascular surgery
  • Endovascular treatment
  • Cardiovascular critical care
  • Epidemiology and prevention

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Hearts will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

© 2024 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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