European Heart Journal: Quick facts and submission tips

CRITERIA FOR PUBLICATION

• Papers need to adhere to the journal guidelines. Papers that do not adhere to these instructions will be returned for appropriate revision.
• The journal has strict guidelines for authorship and conflicts of interest and follows the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.

EDITORIAL POLICIES AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• The European Heart Journal uses a web-based submission and review system at:
  http://www.editorialmanager.com/eurheartj/default.asp?pg=login.asp.
• To petition for fast-track status, authors must send their manuscript by e-mail to fasttrack.eurheartj@usz.ch, ensuring that the manuscript adheres to the European Heart Journal's Instructions for Authors. If you use EndNote and/or Reference Manager to facilitate referencing citations (not required for submission), this journal's style is available for use.
• Several types of articles are published, including Clinical papers, Basic science papers, Current Opinion papers, Reviews, Editorials, Correspondence/e-letters, Cardiovascular flashlights, and Interactive cardiovascular flashlights
  (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/eurheartj/for_authors/). The articles should strictly adhere to the requirements for each article type.
• The journal requires the inclusion of a section called Translational Perspective, which is a short clinical summary of 3-5 sentences to provide the reader with a very brief take-home message on translational aspects. 

MANUSCRIPT REVIEW PROCESS

• Authors should refer to the AMA Manual of Style, 10th ed., for format and style; Webster’s Third New International Dictionary or Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th ed., for spelling and word division; and the Merck Index and Stedman’s Medical Dictionary, 26th ed., for spelling of chemical names and medical terms
• See this link for other recommended ethics related information: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/epirev/for_authors/general.html

INDEXING & METRICS

• Indexed in: 
• CAB Abstracts
• Biological Abstracts
• BIOSIS Previews
• Current Contents® /Clinical Medicine
• Derwent Drug File
• EMBASE
• Excerpta Medica Abstract Journals
• IDIS
• Journal Citation Reports /Science Edition
• Journal Watch: Cardiology
• Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome News
• MEDLINE (PubMed)
• PROQUEST DATABASE
• Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch®)
• Science Citation Index®
• Scopus
• The Standard Periodical Directory
• Impact factor: 14.097
• Ranks #3 out of 125 journals in the category of Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems

Source: 2012 Journal Citation Reports® (Thomson Reuters, 2013)