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Welcome to the World Journal of Cardiology

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 >>

2025 Published Issues
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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)
Editorial
Li-You Lian, Qin-Fen Chen, Xiao-Dong Zhou 
World J Cardiol 17(4):103544. Published online Apr 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i4.103544
Review
Jing-Jing Zhang, Lu Cheng, Qian Qiao, Xue-Liang Xiao, Shao-Jun Lin, Yue-Fang He, Ren-Luo Sha, Jun Sha, Yin Ma, Hao-Ling Zhang, Xue-Rui Ye 
World J Cardiol 17(4):105021. Published online Apr 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i4.105021
Retrospective Cohort Study
Thomas French, Sanjeet Singh Avtaar Singh, Vincenzo Giordano, Charilaos-Panagiotis Koutsogiannidis, Kelvin Hao Han Lim, Renzo Pessotto, Vipin Zamvar 
World J Cardiol 17(4):102669. Published online Apr 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i4.102669
Adhvithi Pingili, Rupak Desai, Roopeessh Vempati, Madhusha Vemula, Mohit Lakkimsetti, Hasmitha Madhavaram, Athmananda Nanjundappa, Sandeep Singh, Praveena Sunkara, Jyotsna Gummadi 
World J Cardiol 17(4):105842. Published online Apr 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i4.105842
Clinical Trials Study
Basheer Abdualah Marzoog, Peter Chomakhidze, Daria Gognieva, Artemiy Silantyev, Alexander Suvorov, Magomed Abdullaev, Natalia Mozzhukhina, Darya Alexandrovna Filippova, Sergey Vladimirovich Kostin, Maria Kolpashnikova, Natalya Ershova, Nikolay Ushakov, Dinara Mesitskaya, Philipp Kopylov 
World J Cardiol 17(4):104396. Published online Apr 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i4.104396
Prospective Study
Efstratios Karagiannidis, Andreas S Papazoglou, Athanasios Samaras, Athina Nasoufidou, Georgios Zormpas, Georgios Tagarakis, Konstantinos C Theodoropoulos, Marios Papadakis, Apostolos Tzikas, Nikolaos Fragakis, George Kassimis 
World J Cardiol 17(4):106072. Published online Apr 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i4.106072
Systematic Reviews
Iman Moradi, Muhammad Saqlain Mustafa, Jannat Sardar Sheikh, Behrooz Shojai Rahnama, Matthew Fredericks, Anil Kumar Yennam, Mustafa Arain, Utsow Saha, Andrew Richard Ma, Adithya Nagendran, Moosa Bin Omer, Muhammad Armaghan, Diana Carolina Cortés Jaimes, Nagavenkata Lova Surya Vamsi Avinash Bojanki, Muhammad Ashir Shafique 
World J Cardiol 17(4):104168. Published online Apr 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i4.104168
Syed Faqeer Hussain Bokhari, Muhammad Muaz Mushtaq, Maham Mushtaq, Husnain Ali, Danyal Bakht, Muhayya Faizullah, Almas Asghar, Muhammad Khan Buhadur Ali, Muhammad Asad Sarwar, Maryyam Liaqat, Asma Iqbal, Wahidullah Dost 
World J Cardiol 17(4):104465. Published online Apr 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i4.104465
Case Report
Letter to the Editor