American Heart Journal


The American Heart Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of cardiology. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Daniel B. Mark. The journal was established in 1925 and published bimonthly until 1977, when it switched to a monthly schedule.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, Current Contents/Life Sciences, BIOSIS Previews, and Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2015 impact factor of 4.332, ranking it 24th out of 123 journals in the category "Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems".