Cardiovascular Research


Cardiovascular Research is a medical journal published monthly by the Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. The journal publishes original and review articles from all areas of basic, translational, and clinical cardiovascular disease.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the impact factor was 7.014 in 2018, ranking the journal 12th out of 136 journals in the 'Cardiac & Cardiovascular systems' category.
The editor-in-chief is Tomasz J. Guzik.

History

The journal was established in 1967 by the British Medical Association on behalf of the British Cardiovascular Society, with John P. Shillingford as the founding editor-in-chief. In 1995, ownership of the journal moved to the European Society of Cardiology and Elsevier became the publisher.

Editors-in-chief

John P. Shillingford 1967-1974
R. J. Linden 1975-1982
Peter Sleight 1983-1991
David J. Hearse 1992-1995
Michiel J. Janse 1995- 2003
Hans Michael Piper 2003-2013
Karin Sipido 2013-2018
Tomasz J. Guzik 2018-