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Welcome to the World Journal of Cardiology

World Journal of Cardiology (WJC, World J Cardiol) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJC accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJC are high-quality, clinical and basic, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJC is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of cardiology, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJC include Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Clinical Research, Basic Study, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. Submit here >>

2024 Published Issues
12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Editors-in-Chief
  • Marco Matteo Ciccone, MD, Associate Professor, (Email: marcomatteo.ciccone@uniba.it) Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, Bari University, Bari 70124, Italy
  • Ramdas G Pai, FACC, FRCP (Hon), MD, Doctor, Professor, (Email: ramdas.pai@medsch.ucr.edu) Director Cardiovascular Fellowship Program, Chair of Clinical Sciences, University of California Riverside School of Medicine, Riverside, CA 92507, United States
  • Pal Pacher, FACC, FAHA, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Professor, Senior Researcher, Senior Scientist, (Email: pacher@mail.nih.gov) Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology and Tissue Injury, National Institutes of Health/NIAAA, Rockville, MD 20852, United States
  • Dimitrios Tousoulis, FACC, MD, PhD, Full Professor, 1st Department of Cardiology, Hippokration Hospital, Medical School of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 11528, Greece
Indexing/Abstracting
The WJC is now abstracted and indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI, Web of Science), PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, Reference Citation Analysis, China Science and Technology Journal Database, and Superstar Journals Database.
Journal Metrics

The 2024 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2023 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJC as 1.9; JIF without journal self cites: 1.9; 5-year JIF: 2.3; JIF Rank: 125/222 in cardiac and cardiovascular systems; JIF Quartile: Q3; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.

The WJC’s CiteScore for 2023 is 3.3 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2023: Cardiology and cardiovascular medicine is 189/387.

ISSN
1949-8462 (online)
Editorial
Review
Minireviews
Muhammad Hassan, Julia Vinagolu-Baur, Vivian Li, Kelly Frasier, Grace Herrick, Tiffany Scotto, Erica Rankin 
World J Cardiol 16(12):707-719. Published online Dec 26, 2024. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v16.i12.707
Retrospective Study
Zhang-Ke Guo, Ping-Gui Chen, Yao-Xuan Li, Hong Jiao, Xiao-Hui Kong, Song Bai, Xiao-Feng Li, Ai-Jun Liu, Guo-Liang Wang 
World J Cardiol 16(12):720-730. Published online Dec 26, 2024. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v16.i12.720
Yao Yu, Zhao-Xu Zhang, Su-Feng Yin, Shou-Ling Wu, Zun-Jing Liu 
World J Cardiol 16(12):731-739. Published online Dec 26, 2024. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v16.i12.731
Observational Study
Yen-Po Lin, Yi-Chiung Hsu, Ko-Huan Lin, Kun-Zhe Tsai, Chen-Chih Chu, Yen-Chen Lin, Gen-Min Lin 
World J Cardiol 16(12):751-759. Published online Dec 26, 2024. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v16.i12.751
Case Report
David Martinez Juarez, Omar Gomez Monterrosas, Alonso Tlecuitl Mendoza, Francisco Zamora Rosales, Rodrigo Álvarez Calderón, Daniel A Cepeda Ortiz, Erick E Espinosa Solis 
World J Cardiol 16(12):760-767. Published online Dec 26, 2024. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v16.i12.760
Letter to the Editor