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The EHJ’s and EJHF’s Year in Cardiology
ESC Heart Failure AssociationAnnual Congress Sevilla May 23, 2015
Thomas F. Lüscher, MD, FESC, FACCand Marco Metra, MD, FESC
Collaborations and Consultancies (Conflicts of Interest) Abbott Laboratories (Research Grants)Actelion, Basel, Switzerland (Educational Grants)Amgen, Zug, Switzerland (Research Grants, Honoraria)AstraZeneca, Zug, Switzerland (Research Grants, Honoraria)Bayer HealthCare, Berlin and Zurich (Research and Educational Grants, Honoraria)Biotronik, Baar, Switzerland (Research Grants)Biosensors International (Research Grants)Boehringer Ingelheim, Basel, Switzerland (Educational Grants and Honoraria)Boston Scientific, Zurich and Paris (Research Grants, Honoraria)Daichi Sankyo, Japan and Zurich (Research Grants, Honoraria)Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, U.S.A. und Verneir, Switzerland (Research Grants and Honoraria)Edwards (Research Grants)MERCK Inc., Rahway, N.J., U.S.A. (Research Grants and Honoraria)Medicines Company (Educational Grants)A. Menarini (Educational Grants)Merck, Sharpe and Dhome, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland (Educational Grants)Pfizer, Inc. New York (Research Grants and Honoraria)Pfizer Schweiz A.G., Zurich, Switzerland (Educational Grants)Roche, Basel, Switzerland (Research Grants and Honoraria)Roche Diagnostics, Rotkreuz, Switzerland (Research Grants)Sanofi, Bridgewater, N.J., U.S.A. (Honoraria)Servier (Research and Educational Grants, Honoraria)St. Jude, Zurich and Brussels (Educational Grants and Honoraria)Sorin (Research Grants)
Main Editors
Thomas F. Thomas F. LüscherLüscherEditor-in-ChiefEditor-in-Chief
Gerd HindricksArrhythmias
Devices
Bernard GershGeneral
Cardiology
Frank RuschitzkaHypertensionHeart Failure
Ulf LandmesserBasic Science
Prevention
William WijnsInterventional
Cardiology
Jereon BaxImaging
• Suzanne Dedecke• Amelia Meier Betscheleit• Sam Rogers• Johanna Huggler• Sandra S. Guyer
Editorial Managers
Speaker
The EHJ is Global – Associate Editors
New Associate Editor of Reviews
Freek Verheught, MD, FESC
Responsibility:• Acquisitiion of high quality
review articles• Handling editor of reviews
The EHJ publishes 2 review articles and/or Current Opinions per issueThus, we need 90 – 100 per year
Speaker
New Consulting Editor
Anthony DeMaria, MD, FACC
Will handle papers of:• Editors• Professionals close to editors• Special situations
The Best Reviewers 2011 - 2014
Gerd Heusch 2011
Kurt Huber 2014
Johann Auer 2012
Nico van de Veire 2013
EHJ Acceptance Rate
Accept10%
Reject39%
Reject not
reviewed35%
Transfer17%
Accept15%
Reject39%
Reject not
reviewed33%
Transfer13%
2013 2014
Final Decisions of papers submitted in the given year.
Acceptance Rate of Submissions
• More than 20 articles in 2014.
• FastTrack articles receive first editorial decision within 5 days and online publication within 10 days of acceptance.
• Authors can petition for FAST TRACK status by sending their manuscript by e-mail to: fasttrack.eurheartj@usz.ch, with an accompanying cover letter detailing why the manuscript would be suitable for fast track publication.
FastTrack Clinical Research
New FeatureBrief Communication
1‘500 words, 1 figure, 12 references
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EHJ Impact Factor
7.341 7.286 7.924 8.917 9.800 10.052 10.478 14.097 14.723 14.876
EHJ’s Impact Factor has more than doubled since 2005.2013 IF (latest) = Citations in 2013 of papers from 2011 & 20122014 IF due summer 2015 – Predicted to increase to approximately 14.876
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The ESC Journal Family 2015
Now 14 Journals...
Editor-in-ChiefMarco Metra, MD, FESC
Manuscript Submissions since 2003
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* 22 May 2015
Name Country Area of Expertise
Ali Ahmed USA Epidemiology/Outcomes/Aging
Javed Butler USA Clinical Trials/Acute HF
Kevin Damman Netherlands Comorbidities
Kenneth Dickstein Norway Electrical Devices
Gregg Fonarow USA Quality/Outcomes
Mihai Gheorghiade USA/Italy Clinical Trials/Acute HF
Barry Greenberg USA Clinical Trials/Gene Transfer
John Parissis Greece Acute/Adv HF/Rehabilitation
Burkert Pieske Austria HFpEF
Bertram Pitt USA Clinical Trials
Mark Richards NZ/Singapore Biomarkers
Giuseppe Rosano UK Pharmacology
Jillian Riley UK Telemonitoring
Peter van der Meer Netherlands Comorbidities
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International Associate Editors
Name Area of Expertise Name Area of ExpertiseEloisa Arbustini Heritable CV Disease Andrea Mortara Telemonitoring/Autonomic
Function
Luigi Badano Imaging/Valve Disease Savina Nodari Quality/Outcomes
Simona Barlera Statistics/Trials Fabrizio Oliva Transplantation/Acute HF
Giuseppe Boriani Arrhythmia/Devices Luigi Padeletti Arrhythmias/Devices
Claudio Ceconi Basic Science/Biomarkers Massimo Piepoli Exercise/Secondary Prevention
Fiorenzo Gaita Arrhythmias/Devices Michele Senni Epidemiology/Diastolic Function
Antonello Gavazzi Clinical Cardiology/Outcomes
Gianfranco Sinagra Genetics/Cardiomyopathies
Guido Iaccarino Basic Science/Biomarkers Gian Paolo Ussia Intervention/Valvular Heart Disease
Roberto Latini Biomarkers/Cardiac imaging/Pharmacology
Giorgio Vescovo Pathophysiology/Pharmacology
Massimo Lombardi Cardiac Imaging Maurizio Volterrani Exercise/Clinical Cardiology
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National Associate Editors
18Submissions By Type & % Accepted – 2014/15 (to date)
2014No. Submitted/
accepted
2014, %Accepted
2015 No.Submitted/ accepted
2015, %Accepted
Book Review 1/ 0 0 0/ 0 0Letters 17/ 6 35.3% 2/ 1 50%Editorials 11/ 9 81.8% 3/ 2 66.6%Invited editorials 11/ 11 100 15 /15 100%Reviews 34/ 5 14.7% 28/ 6 21.4%Case Reports 67/ 0 0 28/ 0 0Full Length Articles 756/ 71 9.3% 304/ 35 11.5%
EHJ transfers 47/ 40 85.1% 19/ 16 84.2%Short Reports 29/ 0 0 11/ 2 18.2%Study Design 22/ 3 13.6 10/ 3 30%Total 1015/ 151 14.9 420/ 80 19.0%
*Another 9 papers from 2014 not yet completed – likely to be accepted
Sucessful Launch of EHJ – CV Pharmacotherapy
Stefan Agewall, MD, FESCEditor-in-Chief
Adam Timmis, Editor-in-ChiefAdam Timmis is Professor of Clinical Cardiology in the NIHR Biomedical Research Unit at BartsHealth Queen Mary University London. He chaired NICE guideline groups on investigation of stable chest pain (2010) and management of angina (2011), reviewed and co-authored the ESC stable angina guideline (2013), was former Editor of Heart (2006-2013), and is an executive member of the UK’s Farr Institute of Health Informatic’s Research and the National Institute of Cardiovascular Outcomes Research.
A new ESC Journal – EHJ - QCCO
EHJ Supplement – The Heart of the Matter
Supplements EditorRoberto Ferrari
Supplements Associate EditorsFrancisco Fernández-AvilesJeroen BaxMichael BöhmThomas LüscherFrank Ruschitzka
2013 Impact Factor: 5.6!
A new ESC Journal – EHJ Supplement
This year 14 issues are scheduledReturn to Pubmed is in process
Open Access
A new Open Access Journal
ESC Journal Family Impact Factors
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EHJ 14.723
EJHF 6.577
CVR 5.808
EHJ supplements 5.64
EuroIntervention 3.75
EJPC 3.691
EHJCI 3.669
Europace 3.05
EJCN 1.828
The ESC Journal Family - IF
The ESC Journal Family on the Road Ahead
Many Thanks!