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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 >>
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 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)
Latest Manuscript Statistics
Received (96), Peer Review Time (5 days/Mean), Time to First Decision (43 days/Mean), Second Decision Time (24 days/Mean), Accepted (69.8%/Mean), Production Time (28 days/Mean), Time to Publication (129 days/Mean), and Rejected (16.7%/Mean).
Editorial
Elie Bou Sanayeh, Oday Salman, Georges Khattar, Dmitriy Nevelev
World J Cardiol
17(5):105669.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.105669
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Received: 02/02/2025
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Revised: 03/11/2025
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Accepted: 03/17/2025
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Takashi Kikuchi, Takatoshi Kasai
World J Cardiol
17(5):107434.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.107434
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Received: 03/23/2025
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Revised: 04/06/2025
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Accepted: 04/18/2025
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Review
Hariharan Seshadri, Dhaiyanitha Gunasekaran, Abdulkader Mohammad, Srinivas Rachoori, Hamrish Kumar Rajakumar
World J Cardiol
17(5):106541.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.106541
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Received: 02/28/2025
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Revised: 03/27/2025
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Accepted: 05/07/2025
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Minireviews
George Latsios, Emmanouil Mantzouranis, Ioannis Kachrimanidis, Panagiotis Theofilis, Sotirios Dardas, Evaggelia Stroumpouli, Constantina Aggeli, Costas Tsioufis
World J Cardiol
17(5):104983.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.104983
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Received: 01/10/2025
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Accepted: 04/08/2025
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Peng Li, Hui-Ping Zhang
World J Cardiol
17(5):107320.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.107320
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Received: 03/20/2025
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Retrospective Study
Muhammad Abdullah Naveed, Faizan Ahmed, Ahila Ali, Sherif Eltawansy, Zaima Afzaal, Bazil Azeem, Muhammad Kashan, Omar Kamel, Hritvik Jain, Mushood Ahmed, Kainat Aman, Hira Zahid, Rabia Iqbal, Aman Ullah, Muhammad Naveed Zafar, Pawel Lajczak, Ogechukwu Obi, Raheel Ahmed
World J Cardiol
17(5):105919.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.105919
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Received: 02/10/2025
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Qin Wang, Xiao-Qiong Yan, Xiao-Mei Ma, Rui Yan, Zhi-Hua Wang, Yu-Jie Ma, Hai-Bin Wang
World J Cardiol
17(5):103168.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.103168
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Received: 11/10/2024
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Accepted: 04/25/2025
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Basic Study
He Shi, Song-Ao Yang, Ling-Yu Bai, Jian-Jun Du, Zhe Wu, Zhi-Hui He, Hao Liu, Jia-Yue Cui, Ming Zhao
World J Cardiol
17(5):104839.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.104839
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Systematic Reviews
Maneeth Mylavarapu, Lakshmi Sai Meghana Kodali, Roopeessh Vempati, Jai Sivanandan Nagarajan, Ankit Vyas, Rupak Desai
World J Cardiol
17(5):106123.
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doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.106123
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Received: 02/16/2025
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Case Report
Wei Jiang, Yu-Zhi Qiu, Hu-Tao Xi, Hui-Hui Ma, Xin Wu, Xiao-Mei Yuan, Wen-Yan Wang, Hong Kong, Xiao-Ping Li
World J Cardiol
17(5):105670.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.105670
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Low-pressure tamponade due to hemothorax after transcatheter edge-to-edge repair of the mitral valve 
Nicholas Seidler, Shyamal R Asher, Tzonghuei Chen, Paul Gordon, Neel Sodha, Andrew Maslow
World J Cardiol
17(5):106567.
Published online May 26, 2025.
doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.106567
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Letter to the Editor
Muhammad Abdul Rehman Gulzar
World J Cardiol
17(5):105822.
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doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i5.105822
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Received: 02/07/2025
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