Heart

is an international journal from BMJ and BCS publishing important research and reviews in cardiovascular disease.

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Heart is an international peer reviewed journal that keeps cardiologists up to date with important research advances in cardiovascular disease. New scientific developments are highlighted in editorials and put in context with concise review articles. There is one free Editor’s Choice article in each issue, with open access options available to authors for all articles. Education in Heart articles provide a comprehensive, continuously updated, cardiology curriculum.

Heart promotes active interchange among researchers and readers to come together as a community to advance science and improve patient care via regular free audio podcasts, letters to the Editor, and news via X, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Listen to the Heart Podcast, which is published twice a month, and subscribe in all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Amazon Music.

Heart is the flagship of BMJ's cardiology portfolio and has an open access companion journal, Open Heart. It is also an official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society.

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Kazem Rahimi, University of Oxford, UK
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Heart considers unsolicited submissions of a variety of article types, including original research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and image challenge questions. Review articles are usually commissioned but unsolicited reviews may be considered for topics of interest to the journal's readers.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

All manuscripts should be submitted online.

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Latest Articles

Systematic review:

Colchicine in acute coronary syndromes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

16 May 2025

Coronary artery disease:

Retinal image-based deep learning for mild cognitive impairment detection in coronary artery disease population

16 May 2025

Editorials:

Ending nuclear weapons, before they end us

15 May 2025

Reviews:

Current and future applications of photon-counting computed tomography in cardiovascular medicine

14 May 2025

Cardiac risk factors and prevention:

Predictive performance of cardiovascular disease risk prediction models in older adults: a validation and updating study

14 May 2025

Best Research Paper Award

Each year the Heart editorial team selects the most meritorious research papers to receive the Heart Best Research Paper Award.

We are pleased to announce the winner and finalists for the Heart Best Research Paper Award 2024 in recognition of high quality and clinical impact. The 2024 award is for the best research paper published in the journal in 2023.

Winner

Divan Ishak, Suleman Aktaa, Lars Lindhagen, Joakim Alfredsson, Tatendashe Bernadette Dondo, Claes Held, Tomas Jernberg, Troels Yndigegn, Chris P Gale, Gorav Batra

Association of beta-blockers beyond 1 year after myocardial infarction and cardiovascular outcomes

See the other finalists and previous winners

Featured Video

Heart - Our Full Story

12 March 2024

Listen to Editor-in-Chief of Heart, Kazem Rahimi, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the advice he has for authors thinking about submitting to the journal, what the journal has to offer to readers and what the journal has planned for 2024.

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