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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 >>

2025 Published Issues
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 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, 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 (267), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (29 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (30 days/Mean), Accepted (39.0%/Mean), Production Time (30 days/Mean), Time to Publication (123 days/Mean), and Rejected (27.0%/Mean).
Editorial
Review
Jenyfer M Fuentes-Mendoza, Marcio J Concepción-Zavaleta, Juan C Morón-Siguas, Juan M Muñoz-Moreno, Aranza I Pérez-Reyes, Rodrigo Martinez-Galaviz, Raúl D Aguilar-Castañeda, Oziel González-Godoy, Luis A Concepción-Urteaga, José Paz-Ibarra 
World J Cardiol 17(10):111462. Published online Oct 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i10.111462
Minireviews
Thang Viet Luong, Tien Anh Hoang, Duong Hung Tran, Nguyen Nguyen Khoi Pham, Huy Cong Nguyen, Nam Hoang Nhat Le, Hai Nguyen Ngoc Dang 
World J Cardiol 17(10):107750. Published online Oct 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i10.107750
George Latsios, Nikolaos Ktenopoulos, Leonidas Koliastasis, Anastasios Apostolos, Ioannis Kachrimanidis, Emmanouil Mantzouranis, Elias Tolis, Vasileios Mantziaris, Ioannis Skalidis, Sotirios Tsalamandris, Maria Drakopoulou, Andreas Synetos, Constantina Aggeli, Costas Tsioufis, Konstantinos Toutouzas 
World J Cardiol 17(10):111598. Published online Oct 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i10.111598
Retrospective Cohort Study
Retrospective Study
Meta-Analysis
Muneeb Khawar, Syed Abdullah Shah, Ayesha Khan, Abdullah Waseem, Hanan Saeed, Ayesha Fatima, Muneeb Saifullah, Abbas Muhammad Mehdi, Abdul Qadeer, Mirza Muhammad Hadeed Khawar 
World J Cardiol 17(10):110793. Published online Oct 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i10.110793
Muneeb Khawar, Umad Ali, Malik Abdullah Rasheed, Abdul Basit Rasheed, Syed Abdullah Shah, Sarmad Zain, Muneeb Saifullah, Moosa Mubarika, Mirza Muhammad Hadeed Khawar, Talha Iqbal, Shameer Iqbal Ghuman, Ikra Rana, Prutha Pathak 
World J Cardiol 17(10):110962. Published online Oct 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i10.110962
Mohammad Maroof Shahid, Debvarsha Mandal, Ashesh Das, Pershan Kumar, Nikil Kumar, Absar Mukhtar, Hooria Ejaz, Muhammad Soban Jaffar, Mavia Habib, Ayesha Afzal, Mirza Muhammad Hadeed Khawar, Ikra Rana 
World J Cardiol 17(10):111941. Published online Oct 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i10.111941
Allahdad Khan, Shree Rath, Noor Fatima, Umair Hayat, Prachi Dawer, Hamza Khan, Waseef Ullah, Zahir Ud Din, Alina Sehar, Ibrahim Nagmeldin Hassan 
World J Cardiol 17(10):112001. Published online Oct 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i10.112001