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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, FACC, FRCP (Hon), MD, Doctor, 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
Minireviews
Syed Faqeer Hussain Bokhari, Syed M Faizan Sattar, Umair Mehboob, Muhammad Umais, Muhammad Ahmad, Ahmad Malik, Danyal Bakht, Asma Iqbal, Wahidullah Dost 
World J Cardiol 17(3):103668. Published online Mar 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i3.103668
Saira Rafaqat, Azeem Azam, Ramsha Hafeez, Hamza Faseeh, Maria Tariq, Muhammad Asif, Amber Arshad, Iqra Noshair 
World J Cardiol 17(3):103947. Published online Mar 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i3.103947
Observational Study
David Rene Rodríguez Lima, Edith Elianna Rodríguez Aparicio, Laura Otálora González, Daniela Carolina Hernández, Alejandro González-Muñoz 
World J Cardiol 17(3):100506. Published online Mar 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i3.100506
Meta-Analysis
Aman Goyal, Aqsa Shoaib, Areeba Fareed, Sara Jawed, Muhammad Taha Khan, Najwa Salim, Ushna Zameer, Amna Siddiqui, Tanya Thakur, Samia Aziz Sulaiman 
World J Cardiol 17(3):104000. Published online Mar 26, 2025. doi: 10.4330/wjc.v17.i3.104000
Case Report
Letter to the Editor