All Heart Rhythm Society members enjoy complimentary print and online subscriptions to HeartRhythm Journal, the number one specialty journal in cardiology, publishing both basic and clinical subject matter of scientific excellence devoted to the EP of the heart and blood vessels, as well as therapy. The Journal is the only EP publication serving the entire electrophysiology community from basic to clinical academic researchers, private practitioners, technicians, industry and trainees. All articles are peer-reviewed ). Visit www.heartrhythmjournal.com to access current and past issues online.
HeartRhythm Journal has a new impact factor of 4.203 for 2007 and ranks 10th out of 74 cardiovascular medicine journals worldwide by the Institute for Scientific Information, remaining the #1 specialty journal in cardiology. Additionally, the journal ranks seventh in the Immediacy Index (a measure of the average number of times an article is cited in the year it is published and indicates how quickly articles in a journal are cited) among cardiology publications.
The Journal addresses a broad range of topics that affect our EP world. Our major focus is on original research and therapy of heart rhythm disorders, including mechanisms and electrophysiology, both clinical and experimental, genetics, ablation, devices, drugs, and surgery. Other sections include:
- Unique Case Reports
- Viewpoints
- Cell to Bedside
- Hands On
- Featured Arrhythmias
- Images with videos viewable on the Internet
- Pacing/ICD Problems
- EP News
- Editorial Commentaries
- Ten Questions for Allied Professionals, and much more.
We also publish the Plenary address and the Douglas P. Zipes Lecture given at the annual Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society, as well as the Gordon K. Moe Lecture presented at the annual Cardiac Electrophysiology Society meeting.
We publish guidelines, position papers and important news information for Heart Rhythm Society members about the Society, and supplement issues, including the abstracts from the Annual Scientific Sessions. (See the Journal's manuscript submission guidelines for full details.) Journal articles frequently receive extensive press coverage.
To encourage and promote excitement in performing research, each year we recognize four outstanding clinical and four outstanding experimental articles for presentation at the annual Scientific Sessions of the Heart Rhythm Society, and two EP trainees who have published outstanding clinical and experimental articles. We also recognize our top remarkable reviewers who have set records in review time and number of manuscripts reviewed in the previous year.
Visit www.heartrhythmjournal.com to access current and past issues online, or to subscribe to the number one specialty journal in cardiology.
