American Heart Journal

Aims & Scope

The American Heart Journal will consider for publication suitable articles on topics pertaining to the broad discipline of cardiovascular disease.

Our goal is to provide the reader primary investigation, scholarly review, and opinion concerning the practice of cardiovascular medicine.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3.5
2024	3.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	2.039

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	1382

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	2100

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline
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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized for heart failure in the United States: Rationale, design, and preliminary observations from the first 100,000 cases in the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE)

  Citation: 1697

  Authors: Kirkwood F., Gregg C., Charles L., Thierry H., Maria Rosa, William T., Robert L., Marie, Darlene P.

• Cardiovascular disease risk profiles

  Citation: 1570

  Authors: Keaven M., Patricia M., Peter W.F., William B.

• Maximal oxygen intake and nomographic assessment of functional aerobic impairment in cardiovascular disease

  Citation: 1514

  Authors: R.A., F., D.

• Apical ballooning syndrome (Tako-Tsubo or stress cardiomyopathy): A mimic of acute myocardial infarction

  Citation: 1442

  Authors: Abhiram, Amir, Charanjit S.

• Hydraulic formula for calculation of the area of the stenotic mitral valve, other cardiac valves, and central circulatory shunts. I

  Citation: 1398

  Authors: R., S.G.

• The ventricular complex in left ventricular hypertrophy as obtained by unipolar precordial and limb leads

  Citation: 1390

  Authors: Maurice, Thomas P.

• Patterns of coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality in the sexes: A 26-year follow-up of the Framingham population

  Citation: 1240

  Authors: Debra J, William B

• Congenital deaf-mutism, functional heart disease with prolongation of the Q-T interval, and sudden death

  Citation: 1223

  Authors: Anton, Fred

• Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease

  Citation: 1042

  Authors: Russell

• A computer model of atrial fibrillation

  Citation: 1010

  Authors: Gordon K, Werner C, J.A

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