Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DisciplineCardiology
LanguageEnglish
Edited byMasanori Aikawa, Hendrik Tevaearai Stahel
Publication details
History2014–present
Publisher
Frontiers Media (Switzerland)
FrequencyUpon acceptance
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution
6.050 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Front. Cardiovasc. Med.
Indexing
CODENFCMRCE
ISSN2297-055X
LCCN2015243132
OCLC no.889714507
Links

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all aspects of cardiology and vascular medicine with an emphasis on studies that offer new treatments and practices or facilitate the translation of scientific advances into clinical practice. It was established in 2014 and is published by Frontiers Media.

At the point of publication, all articles are immediately and permanently accessible online free of charge. Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine articles are published under the CC BY Creative Commons license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and the source are credited.

Journal Structure and Editorial Board

The journal has over 20 specialty sections. The current editors-in-chief are Hendrik Tevaearai Stahel (Berne University Hospital) and Masanori Aikawa (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School), who joined the journal in 2016.

The editorial board is made up of leading experts and established members of the research community. As of 2024, the Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine editorial board is made up of specialty chief editors, field chief editors, associate editors, and review editors from six continents and over 40 countries.[1]

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

  • PubMed
  • PubMed Central (PMC)[2]
  • Scopus
  • Web of Science, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  • Google Scholar
  • DOAJ[3]
  • CrossRef
  • Semantic Scholar
  • Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
  • CLOCKSS

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2021 impact factor of 6.050.[4]

Media Coverage

Research from Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, which has published over 10,000 articles, has been featured in media outlets worldwide. Examples include:

  • Overcoming the 24-Hour Heart Transplant Time Limit: New Transplant Technique Could Save Lives[5]
  • Problemi di cuore, perché sentirsi utili difende la salute degli anziani. Lo studio[6]
  • How Does Fat Leave The Body? Experts Explain The Weight Loss Process[7]
  • Can every health condition be linked to a lack of physical exercise?[8]
  • 對抗失智 國衛院研究：閱讀學習提升認知儲備[9]

Partnerships

In 2019, Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine partnered with the fifth Global Cardio-oncology Summit (GCOS) to produce a series of event abstracts. GCOS is a world congress of cardio-oncology, focused on the care of cancer patients and survivors, or with multiple risk factors for cardiovascular disease, including the toxic effects of treatment such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy and cell transplantation. The program addressed the latest research in the field, to better understand how cancer affects heart and vessels, trying to identify mechanisms and strategies to prevent and to treat heart disease in cancer patients.[10]

Controversy

On the 7th of May 2015, Frontiers removed 31 editors across Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, after a dispute with the editorial board.[11] The editors complained that the company was interfering in editing decisions and acting in a way that violated core principles for medical publishing in general.

In a document sent to management,[12] editors (including three editors in chief) cited multiple unethical issues with how Frontiers handles manuscripts, including that editors in chief are only notified of acceptances after an associate editor or guest editor has accepted a paper for publication. On the other hand, rejection of papers requires editor in chief approval. This, the editors allege, is a violation of the World Association of Medical Editors's guidelines. The editors also argued numerous other issues, such as the use of special issues (known as research topics) with no notice given to the editor in chief, violate editorial independence, and that the editors are often revoked from editing with no notice. This system, according the former editor in chief at these journals (Matthias Barton) maximizes profit over ethical publishing quality.

In its 7 May 2015 announcement,[13] Frontiers responded publicly to all points of concern and reported the matter to the boards of the three institutions (at that time) publishing ethical guidelines: ICMJE, WAME and COPE. As of 2024 Frontiers remains in compliance with those groups’ guidelines and is a member of COPE. The current Field Chief Editors (Dr. Aikawa and Dr. Stahel) have secured an experienced editorial board to help ensure the journal’s editorial processes to protect quality.[14]

In the same year, Frontiers Media was classified as a possible predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall.[15] However, Beall's list was taken offline two years later[16] in a decision that remains controversial.

References

  1. ^ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cardiovascular-medicine/editors
  2. ^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/?report=full&term=jrid44513
  3. ^ https://doaj.org/toc/2297-055X
  4. ^ "Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine". 2021 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2021.
  5. ^ https://scitechdaily.com/overcoming-the-24-hour-heart-transplant-time-limit-new-transplant-technique-could-save-lives/
  6. ^ https://tg24.sky.it/salute-e-benessere/2022/12/21/problemi-cuore-utili-salute-anziani
  7. ^ https://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/a45600029/how-does-fat-leave-the-body/
  8. ^ https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/health-news/can-every-health-condition-be-linked-to-a-lack-of-physical-exercise/ar-AA1mgTKp
  9. ^ https://tw.news.yahoo.com/%E5%B0%8D%E6%8A%97%E5%A4%B1%E6%99%BA-%E5%9C%8B%E8%A1%9B%E9%99%A2%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6-%E9%96%B1%E8%AE%80%E5%AD%B8%E7%BF%92%E6%8F%90%E5%8D%87%E8%AA%8D%E7%9F%A5%E5%84%B2%E5%82%99-065418168.html
  10. ^ https://www.frontiersin.org/books/5th_Global_Cardio-Oncology_Summit/2617
  11. ^ https://www.science.org/content/article/open-access-publisher-sacks-31-editors-amid-fierce-row-over-independence
  12. ^ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275966051_Manifesto_of_Editorial_Independence_of_Editors_of_Frontiers_Medical_Journals
  13. ^ https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2015/05/07/frontiers-acts-to-defend-distributed-editorial-independence/
  14. ^ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cardiovascular-medicine/about#about-quality
  15. ^ Bloudoff-Indelicato, Mollie (2015). "Backlash after Frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers". Nature. 526 (7575): 613. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..613B. doi:10.1038/526613f. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4391970.
  16. ^ https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/18/librarians-list-predatory-journals-reportedly-removed-due-threats-and-politics

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