期刊名称：BMC CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
About BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
This page includes information about the aims and scope of BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, editorial policies, open access and article-processing charges, the peer review process and other information. For details of how to prepare and submit a manuscript through the online submission system, please see the instructions for authors.
Scope
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of disorders of the heart and circulatory system, as well as related molecular and cell biology, genetics, pathophysiology, epidemiology, and controlled trials.
It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field.
Editorial team
- Executive Editor
- Timothy Shipley
- Editorial Board Manager
- Paul Lambert
- Journal Development Manager
- Genevieve Horne
- Senior Managing Editor
- Diana Marshall
- Publisher
- Jo Appleford-Cook
Open access
All articles published by BMC Cardiovascular Disorders are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.
Authors of articles published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders are the copyright holders of their articles and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate the article, according to the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement.
For authors who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BioMed Central can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.
Article-processing charges
Open access publishing is not without costs. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders therefore levies an article-processing charge of £1325/$2215/€1600 for each article accepted for publication. We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. Generally, if the submitting author's institution is a Member the cost of the article-processing charge is covered by the membership, and no further charge is payable. In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author. For further details, see our article-processing charge page.
Indexing services
All articles published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders are included in PubMed, the most widely used biomedical bibliographic database service, which is run by the US National Library of Medicine. Other bibliographic databases that index articles published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders include:
- CABI
- CAS
- Cases Database
- Citebase
- Current contents
- DOAJ
- Embase
- Global Health
- Google Scholar
- Index Copernicus
- MEDLINE
- OAIster
- PubMed
- PubMed Central
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- SCImago
- Scirus
- Scopus
- SOCOLAR
- Zetoc
The full text of all research articles is deposited in PubMed Central, the US National Library of Medicine's full-text repository of life science literature, and other digital archives including e-Depot (The Netherlands).
The full text of all research articles published by BioMed Central is also available on SpringerLink. All case reports published in this journal will also be indexed in Cases Database.
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has an Impact Factor of 1.46.
Publication and peer review process
Publication of research articles by BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is dependent primarily on their scientific validity and coherence as judged by our external expert editors and/or peer reviewers, who will also assess whether the writing is comprehensible and whether the work represents a useful contribution to the field.
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders operates an 'open peer review' policy meaning reviewers are asked to sign their reviews. The pre-publication history including all submitted versions, reviewers' reports and authors' responses will be linked to from the published article.
Authors will be able to check the progress of their manuscript through the submission system at any time by logging into My BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, a personalized section of the site.
Reprints
High-quality, bound reprints can be purchased for all articles published. Please see our reprints website for further information about ordering reprints.
Supplements
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders will consider supplements based on proceedings (full articles or meeting abstracts), reviews or research. All articles submitted for publication in supplements are subject to peer review. Published supplements are fully searchable and freely accessible online and can also be produced in print. All full length articles (proceedings, reviews or research articles) are indexed by PubMed. PubMed displays the title of the supplement only in the case of meeting abstract collections. For further information, please contact us.
Editorial policies
All manuscripts submitted to BMC Cardiovascular Disorders should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.
Appeals and complaints
Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should, in the first instance, contact the Executive Editor who will provide details of the journal's complaints procedure.
Citing articles in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Articles in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.
Article citations follow this format:
Authors: Title. BMC Cardiovasc Disord [year], [volume number]:[article number].
e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. BMC Cardiovasc Disord 2009, 1:115.
refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.
Why publish your article in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders?
High visibility
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. Articles that have been especially highly accessed are highlighted with a 'Highly accessed' graphic, which appears on the journal's contents pages and search results.
Speed of publication
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, BioMed Central and PubMed Central and will also be included in PubMed.
Flexibility
Online publication in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders gives authors the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).
Promotion and press coverage
Articles published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be included in abstract books mailed to academics and are highlighted on BMC Cardiovascular Disorders's pages and on the BioMed Central homepage.
In addition, articles published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BioMed Central is available here.
Copyright
Authors of articles published in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the BioMed Central copyright and license agreement).
For further information about the advantages of publishing in a journal from BioMed Central, please click here.
Instructions to Authors
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of disorders of the heart and circulatory system, as well as related molecular and cell biology, genetics, pathophysiology, epidemiology, and controlled trials.
It is journal policy to publish work deemed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to scientific knowledge and to put less emphasis on interest levels, provided that the research constitutes a useful contribution to the field.
Each article type published by BMC Cardiovascular Disorders follows a specific format, as detailed in the corresponding instructions for authors; please choose an article type from the list on the left to view the instructions for authors.
The instructions for authors includes information about preparing a manuscript for submission to BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, criteria for publication and the online submission process. Other relevant information about the journal's policies, the refereeing process and so on can be found in 'About this journal'.
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders publishes the following article types:
We use plagiarism detection
 
This journal is a member of, and subscribes to the principles of, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Authors and referees are asked to declare any competing interests.
Copyright rests with the authors. For more information on copyright of articles, see our publisher's copyright and license policy.
Please make sure you have satisfied the points on the following checklist before submitting your manuscript. If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact info@biomedcentral.com. If you are submitting a manuscript to a particular Special Issue, please refer to its specific name in your covering letter.
1. Email addresses
Do you have a list of the email addresses for all the co-authors of the manuscript? You will need to provide these so that we can inform the co-authors when the manuscript has been received and when it is published.
2. Instructions for Authors and peer review policy
Have you read the detailed Instructions for Authors for BMC Cardiovascular Disorders? You may also like to read BMC Cardiovascular Disorders's peer review policy.
If you are planning to submit a TeX file, please submit your TeX file as the main manuscript file and your bib/bbl file as a dependent file. Please also convert your TeX file into a PDF and submit this PDF as an additional file with the name 'Reference PDF'. This PDF will be used by internal staff as a reference point to check the layout of the article as the author intended.
3. Covering letter, peer reviewers and editorial board selection
Have you prepared a covering letter for your submission, explaining why we should publish your manuscript and elaborating on any issues relating to our editorial policies detailed in the instructions for authors? This should be provided using the 'cover letter' section of the submission process.
4. Manuscript files
Do you have all the files for the manuscript in an acceptable format?
Main manuscript
Formats: DOC, DOCX , PDF , RTF (rich text format) , DVI , TEX
Tables less than 2 pages (about 90 rows) should be included at the end of the manuscript. Longer tables should be submitted, and referred to in the text, as additional files. TeX files must use the BioMed Central TeX template.
Figure files
Formats: EPS , PDF (for line drawings) , PNG , TIFF (for photographs and screen dumps) , JPEG (for photographs and screen dumps) , BMP , DOC, DOCX , PPT, PPTX
Must be separate files, not embedded in the main manuscript.
Additional files
May be any standard type of file, eg. movies, datasets, large tables etc.
Files must be named with the three letter file extension appropriate to the file type (eg .pdf, .xls, .txt)
Additional material files should include necessary material that cannot be included in the PDF version of the published article, such as large datasets or movies . Tables should ordinarily be included in the manuscript file, unless they are exceptionally large (more than 2 manuscript pages or 90 rows). The manuscript file should include a short description of any additional files and software necessary to view them.
Please refer to the Instructions for Authors for further information about suitable file types.
5. Article-processing charges
An article processing charge of £1325/US$2215/€1600 is payable for articles accepted for publication in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders.
If your institution, society or other organization is a member, this cost may be wholly or partly covered by the membership arrangement. If you are applying for an institutional membership payment, the submitting author must be affiliated with the member institution.
Article processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors who lack funds. To apply for a waiver or discount, please request one during the submission process. A decision on the waiver will normally be made within two working days.
Submission of the article to the journal can be completed once the payment method has been agreed. Any applicable article processing charge must be paid prior to publication.
Submissions from EU countries are subject to VAT (Value Added Tax). EU customers must supply their VAT Number to be exempt from VAT charge. UK Customers are not exempt from VAT charge. If you choose to pay by a method other than by credit card, there is an administration surcharge applicable.
For more information, see our article processing charge FAQ. Find out how to recommend that your institution become a member.
6. Are you one of the authors of this article?
If not, you cannot submit the article on behalf of the authors.
As part of the submission process you will assign a contact author for the article, and this can be yourself or a co-author where they are registered. Once the manuscript is submitted the contact author takes responsibility so only they will be able to access the manuscript online in the 'My manuscripts' section of the website and receive correspondence sent throughout the peer review and production process.
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Editorial Board
Section Editors
- Dr Christian Delles University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Michel Noutsias University Hospital of Jena, Germany
- Johanna Takkenberg Erasmus MC, Netherlands
- Gillian Whalley Unitec, New Zealand
Associate Editors
- Ibrahim Akin University of Rostock, Germany
- Ashraf Anwar king Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Saudi Arabia
- Stephane Arques Aubagne Hospital, France
- Cristina Basso University of Padua, Italy
- Iddo Ben-Dov Rockefeller University, USA
- Marius Berman Papworth Hospital, UK
- Alex Blatt Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Georgios Bouras Athens General Hospital, Greece
- Peter Bramlage Institute for Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Epidemiology, Germany
- Hao-min Cheng Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
- Benjamin Cheong Texas Heart Institute, USA
- Fu-Tien Chiang National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Vineet Chopra University of Michigan, USA
- Mustafa Cikirikcioglu University Hosptial of Geneva, Switzerland
- Bimmer Claessen Academic Medical Center, Netherlands
- Fabrizio D'ascenzo University of Turin, Italy
- Patricia Davidson University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Renato De Vecchis Public Health Company, Italy
- Abbas Dehghan Erasmus University Medical Center, Netherlands
- Chiara Donfrancesco Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy
- Gian L Faggioli University of Bologna, Italy, Italy
- David Fitzmaurice University of Birmingham, UK
- Andrea Fruscati La Sapienza University, Italy
- Ricardo J Gelpi University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Tain-Yen Hsia Great Ormond Street Hospital, UK
- Alfonso Ielasi Bolognini Hospital, Italy
- Yoshitaka Iwanaga Kinki University Faculty of Medicine, Japan
- Bharat Kantharia University of Texas, USA
- Jesper Kjaergaard Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
- Jolanda Kluin University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
- Mariusz Kruk Institute of Cardiology, Poland
- Susan Lakoski University of Vermont, USA
- Guillaume Lettre Montreal Heart Institute, Canada
- Marzia Lotrionte Catholic University Rome, Italy
- Eric Loucks Brown University, USA
- Nassos Manginas Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
- Malek Massad University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
- Nehal Mehta NIH/NHLBI, USA
- Giovanni Melina University of Rome, Italy
- Wendy Nembhard University of South Florida, USA
- Marc-Alexander Ohlow Zentralklinik Bad Berka, Germany
- Jeetesh Patel Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, UK
- Nina Paynter Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
- Antonio Pazin-Filho University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Paul Poirier Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Canada
- David L Prior St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
- Susana Ravassa University of Navarra, Spain
- Arsen Ristic Clinical Centre of Serbia & Belgrade University School of Medicine, Serbia
- Elaine Rush Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Gil Fernando Salles Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Markus Schneider University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Aletta Schutte North-West University, South Africa
- Rasmus Sejersten Ripa University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Helmut Sinzinger Institute Athos, Austria
- Kim Smolderen Mid America Heart Institute, USA
- Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
- Stella Stabouli Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece
- Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek Jagiellonian University Medical College, Poland
- Welma Stonehouse Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
- Weihong Tang University of Minnesota, USA
- Jose Eduardo Tanus dos Santos University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Jacob Tfelt-Hansen University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Jens Jakob Thune Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
- Salvatore Tomasello Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy
- Mark Toshner University of Cambridge, UK
- Ioanna Tzoulaki University of Ioannina, Greece
- Ilonca Vaartjes University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
- Germaine Verwoert Erasmus MC, Netherlands
- Kenchi Watanabe Niigata University of Pharmacy and Applied Life Sciences, Japan
- Sean Wu Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
- Aini Xie Baylor College of Medicine, USA
- Yuichiro Yano Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Editorial Advisors
- Peter Anderson University of Alabama, USA
- Norman Briffa University of Sheffield & Sheffield teaching Hospitals, UK
- Morris J Brown Addenbrooke's Hospital, UK
- Harry Hemingway University College London, UK
- Desmond Julian University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
- Bernard Keavney University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
- Han C Kemper VU University Medical Center, Netherlands
- Ijaz Khan University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
- John Ludbrook University of Melbourne, Australia
- Jonathan Mant University of Cambridge, UK
- Bongani Mawethu Mayosi University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Robert McKelvie McMaster University, Canada
- Madhu K Natarajan McMaster University, Canada
- Peter Sandercock University of Edinburgh, UK
- Cathie Sudlow University of Edinburgh, UK
- Michael J Sullivan University of California, USA
- Eric Topol The Scripps Research Institute, USA
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