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World Journal of Cardiology (WJC, World J Cardiol) is a high-quality, open-access academic journal that employs a single-blind peer-review process. The journal focuses on publishing clinical, basic, and translational research achievements that are innovative, novel, and practical in the fields of cardiology. 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. All submissions must comply with academic norms and ethical requirements. WJC is edited and published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. Submit here >>
Editors-in-Chief
- Ramdas G Pai, MD, 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
- Xiao-Quan Rao, MD, PhD, Professor, (Email: jannet18@163.com) Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei Province, China
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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.
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The 2025 edition of Journal Citation Reports® cites the 2024 journal impact factor (JIF) for WJC as 2.8; JIF without journal self cites: 2.6; 5-year JIF: 2.9; JIF Rank: 84/230 in cardiac and cardiovascular systems; JIF Quartile: Q2; and 5-year JIF Quartile: Q2.
The WJC’s CiteScore for 2024 is 3.2 and Scopus CiteScore rank 2024: Cardiology and cardiovascular medicine is 192/397.
ISSN
1949-8462 (online)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (2189), Peer Review Time (30 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (47 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (38 days/Mean), Accepted (51.8%/Mean), Production Time (57 days/Mean), Time to Publication (182 days/Mean), and Rejected (34.9%/Mean).
Editorial
Zu-Chian Chiang, Xi Huang
World J Cardiol
18(1):113579.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.113579
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Received: 08/28/2025
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Accepted: 12/25/2025
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Review
Clinical application and expansion of paclitaxel-coated balloons in coronary atherosclerotic disease 
A-Xiu Huang, Hong-Ying Xie, Gang Luo, Le Hong, Yun-Long Zhou, Yun Wang, De-Kui Gao
World J Cardiol
18(1):108975.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.108975
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Received: 04/29/2025
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Revised: 05/30/2025
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Accepted: 12/03/2025
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Ajit Singh Brar, Tejasvini Khanna, Aalam Sohal, Juniali Hatwal, Vishal Sharma, Carol Singh, Akash Batta, Praveen Chandra, Bishav Mohan
World J Cardiol
18(1):111954.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.111954
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Received: 07/13/2025
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Accepted: 11/24/2025
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Carlos Eduardo Oliveira Aguiar, Juan Marcos Caram Costa, Marina Maria Gomes Leite Oliveira, Caio Ferraz Lopes, Pedro Henrique Melo Lima, Victoria Cenci Dietrich, Rafaella Fortini Queiroz Grenfell, Fabrício Freire de Melo
World J Cardiol
18(1):112466.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.112466
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Received: 07/28/2025
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Minireviews
Anastasia Kalinina, Nina Mzhavanadze, Roman Kalinin, Igor Suchkov
World J Cardiol
18(1):106885.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.106885
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Received: 03/09/2025
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Accepted: 11/25/2025
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Akshyaya Pradhan, Shobhit Shah, Pravesh Vishwakarma, Alok Kumar Singh
World J Cardiol
18(1):111882.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.111882
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Received: 07/11/2025
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Accepted: 11/20/2025
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Abhilash Koratala
World J Cardiol
18(1):112636.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.112636
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Received: 07/31/2025
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Accepted: 11/12/2025
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Kristina G Pereverzeva, Sergey S Yakushin, Ayoub Glenza, Arzu A Gurbanova
World J Cardiol
18(1):112827.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.112827
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Received: 08/06/2025
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Ioanna Dimitriadou, Evangelos C Fradelos, John Skoularigis, Aikaterini Toska, Maria Saridi
World J Cardiol
18(1):113258.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.113258
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Retrospective Cohort Study
Kristoffer Ken Ralota, Deniz Tuncer, Nay Min Htun, Rohit Samuel, Vivek Gupta, Robert Lew, Jamie Layland
World J Cardiol
18(1):112321.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.112321
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Received: 07/23/2025
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Accepted: 12/08/2025
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Retrospective Study
Kai-Xiang Su, Si-Yu Jiang, Cai-Feng Pang, Fan Yang, Yu-Qing Tang, Xiao-Gang Li, Wen-Feng He, Rui Li
World J Cardiol
18(1):112857.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.112857
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Clinical Trials Study
Florian Genske, Anna Riepe, Elias Rawish, Thomas Stiermaier, Ingo Eitel, Christian Frerker, Tobias Schmidt
World J Cardiol
18(1):113783.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.113783
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Received: 09/04/2025
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Accepted: 11/18/2025
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Observational Study
Praveen Kumar, Ajay Kumar Verma, Jyoti Bajpai, Sujita Kumar Kar, Akshyaya Pradhan, Surya Kant, Rajiv Garg, Santosh Kumar, Ram Avadh Singh Kushwaha, Sanjeev Kumar Verma, Darshan Kumar Bajaj, Anand Srivastava, Ankit Katiyar
World J Cardiol
18(1):112541.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.112541
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Received: 07/30/2025
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Accepted: 11/21/2025
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Prospective Study
Nikola Kos, Ivan Zeljković, Karlo Golubic, Vjekoslav Radeljic, Marijan Erceg, Diana Delic-Brkljacic, Maja Cigrovski Berkovic, Nikola Bulj
World J Cardiol
18(1):111736.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.111736
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Received: 07/07/2025
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Accepted: 12/03/2025
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Basic Study
Shuang Dong, Yun-Qi Liu, Yi-Jun Tu, Shan Gao, Yu-Jie Liu, Chang Liu, Zuo-Wei Pei
World J Cardiol
18(1):114108.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.114108
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Received: 09/12/2025
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Revised: 10/11/2025
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Accepted: 12/01/2025
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Systematic Reviews
Veysel Embel, Muhammad Saad Hafeez, Larissa Russo, Nasim Ahmed
World J Cardiol
18(1):111254.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.111254
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Received: 06/25/2025
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Accepted: 12/04/2025
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Meta-Analysis
Ahmed Alqarni, Abdulwahab Algarni, Rejina Chhetri
World J Cardiol
18(1):114123.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.114123
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Received: 09/11/2025
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Revised: 09/22/2025
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Accepted: 12/01/2025
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Letter to the Editor
Ru-Tong Wang, Ying-Qi Feng, Si-Qi Tu, Shen Yang
World J Cardiol
18(1):113327.
Published online Jan 26, 2026.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v18.i1.113327
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