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Welcome to the World Journal of Cardiology

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 >>

2026 Published Issues
1
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
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 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 (2200), Peer Review Time (30 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (46 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (38 days/Mean), Accepted (51.8%/Mean), Production Time (57 days/Mean), Time to Publication (181 days/Mean), and Rejected (35.0%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
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
Minireviews
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Clinical Trials Study
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
Prospective Study
Basic Study
Systematic Reviews
Meta-Analysis
Letter to the Editor