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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 >>

2025 Published Issues
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Editors-in-Chief
  • 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
  • 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 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
Case Control Study
Retrospective Cohort Study
Akshyaya Pradhan, Shivam Uppal, Pravesh Vishwakarma, Abhishek Singh, Monika Bhandari, Ayush Shukla, Akhil Sharma, Gaurav Chaudhary, Sharad Chandra, Rishi Sethi, Sudhanshu Kumar Dwivedi 
World J Cardiol 17(2):99074. Published online Feb 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i2.99074
Retrospective Study
Basic Study
Diana Maria Morariu-Briciu, Sorin Lucian Bolintineanu, Andreea Rata, Alexandra Denisa Semenescu, Alina Anton, Robert Jijie, Andreea Kis, Ingrid Hrubaru, Alina Heghes 
World J Cardiol 17(2):102310. Published online Feb 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i2.102310
Systematic Reviews
Basheer Abdualah Marzoog, Peter Chomakhidze, Daria Gognieva, Alena Yurievna Parunova, Snezhana Nikolaevna Demchuk, Artemiy Silantyev, Natalia Kuznetsova, Anastasia Kostikova, Dmitrii Podgalo, Evgeny Nagornov, Aida Gadzhiakhmedova, Philipp Kopylov 
World J Cardiol 17(2):102851. Published online Feb 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i2.102851
Meta-Analysis
Case Report
Jun-Qing Xu, Meng-Xin Jiang, Feng Wang, Kai-Qiang Yang, Ying-Jiang Xu, Yu-Jiu Wang, Sheng-Jun Dong 
World J Cardiol 17(2):101588. Published online Feb 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i2.101588
Letter to the Editor