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

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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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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)

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2014, %Accepted

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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!