ESC launches journal on CV pharmacotherapy

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE:

29-Aug-2014

Contact: ESC Press Office press@escardio.org 34-670-521-210 European Society of Cardiology

Barcelona, Spain Saturday 30 August 2014: A new ESC journal on cardiovascular pharmacotherapy is launched today at ESC Congress by the ESC and Oxford University Press.

European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy officially starts publishing in 2015. A special launch issue has been produced for ESC Congress 2014 with editorials and a call for papers. The journal's website goes live in September.

Editor in chief Professor Stefan Agewall said: "We aim to become the number one journal in the field of clinical cardiovascular pharmacology within a couple of years. The strength of this journal is being part of the ESC journal family with the EHJ as the mother journal. Currently there is no daughter journal covering clinical pharmacology and there is a need for one. Neither are there similar daughter journals from Circulation or JACC."

He added: "The EHJ rejects 9 out of 10 papers right now and this proportion is likely to increase in the future. Many of these are good papers in clinical pharmacology and could be sent to our new journal using the transfer system which is already in place in the family."

Professor Agewall continued: "Pharmacology is an extremely important part of cardiology today. Nearly every patient with cardiac disease is on some kind of medication. Already there are almost half a million references to 'cardiovascular pharmacology' in MEDLINE and the number of papers within this area is growing very fast. More studies are needed to improve outcomes of patients with cardiovascular disease which is the most common cause of death globally."

The journal aims to improve the pharmacological treatment of patients with cardiovascular disease. It will attract authors with a high quality, fast review process which enables articles to be rapidly published online. The journal will publish original research, invited editorials commenting on research papers, and invited reviews by prestigious authors.

Four issues will be published in 2015. Professor Agewall said: "The number of issues will increase yearly with the goal of producing a monthly publication within 5 to 6 years."

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