Cardiology Plus is the journal of a national cardiovascular society in China, and the society's name sits beside the title on the cover rather than being carried in a subtitle.《Cardiology Plus》是中国心血管领域全国性学会的会刊，学会名与刊名并排印在封面上，不藏在副标题里。
Adult cardiology is covered end to end. Prevention in community populations and catheter procedures in the electrophysiology laboratory appear in the same run of issues.成人心脏病学从头铺到尾。社区人群的预防与电生理导管手术出现在同一串期号里。
Intervention is the heaviest single block of the journal, and papers on stents, valves and denervation devices arrive in most issues.介入是最重的一块，支架、瓣膜与去肾神经器械的文章几乎每期都有。
Chinese expert consensus documents are a standing feature. Seventeen records carry the word in the title, and three of them date from 2025 and 2026 on renal denervation and on transcatheter aortic valve replacement.中国专家共识是常设栏目。标题里带共识二字的有十七条，其中三条出自 2025 与 2026 年，讲去肾神经的与讲经导管主动脉瓣置换的都在内。
Cardio-oncology has formed a cluster of its own. The fourth issue of volume 10 in 2025 ran a set on training for the field, on cardiovascular toxicity from tyrosine kinase inhibitors, and on precision-guided care for patients under cancer treatment.肿瘤心脏病学自成一块。2025 年第 10 卷第 4 期一口气发了这个方向的培训问题，酪氨酸激酶抑制剂的心血管毒性，以及肿瘤治疗期间心血管照护的精准化。
Traditional medicine is examined in the same formats as anything else. A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis assesses Qiliqiangxin capsules for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.中药在这本刊里走同样的格式。2026 年一篇系统综述与荟萃分析评估芪苈强心胶囊在射血分数降低的心力衰竭中的效果。
Imaging has picked up a computational load. One paper validates artificial intelligence plaque characterisation in coronary optical coherence tomography against histology, another scores CT-derived fractional flow reserve for in-stent restenosis.影像已经带上了算力。一篇把冠脉光学相干断层扫描上的人工智能斑块判读对着组织学做验证，另一篇用 CT 导出的血流储备分数评估支架内再狭窄。
Device studies report on Chinese patient cohorts. A post-market prospective study follows the Micra VR leadless pacemaker, and another paper counts inappropriate shocks from implantable defibrillators.器械研究报告的是中国病人队列。一篇上市后前瞻观察跟了 Micra VR 无导线起搏器，另一篇统计植入式除颤器的不恰当放电。
Epidemiology looks outward as well as inward. A 2026 analysis of peripheral artery disease attributable to high fasting plasma glucose sits beside single-centre Chinese data in the same volume.流行病学既看本地也看全球。2026 年一篇分析算高空腹血糖归因的下肢动脉病负担，与中国的单中心数据摆在同一卷里。
Guidelines from elsewhere are read closely. The 2026 heart failure document of the European Society of Cardiology was discussed in the same volume that carried Chinese consensus statements.别处的指南也被细读。欧洲心脏病学会 2026 年的心力衰竭文件，与中国自己的共识文章出现在同一卷里。
Letters carry methodological argument rather than congratulation. A 2026 letter takes issue with how adiposity was handled in a study of right ventricular function.读者来信承载的是方法学争论，不是客套。2026 年一封信质疑一项右心室功能研究对肥胖指标的处理。
Nothing is charged to read and nothing is charged to publish. The directory record lists no article processing charge, and every paper is open access under a licence that keeps the copyright with the authors.读不要钱，发也不要钱。目录记录里没有文章处理费这一项，每篇论文都开放获取，著作权留在作者手里。
The journal states a twelve-week average from acceptance to publication. For a quarterly that number is the difference between being current and being a year behind.刊物给出的从录用到上线平均时间是十二周。对一份季刊来说，这个数就是当期与落后一年的分界。
History
Volume 1 opened in 2016. The first paper in the first issue argues for lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol to the level a person is born with, a title that tells you the journal meant to be read.第 1 卷从 2016 年开张。创刊号第一篇主张把低密度脂蛋白胆固醇降到人出生时的水平，这个标题说明刊方想让人读得进去。
Yong Huo founded the journal. The first issues came out of an arrangement with an imprint registered in Menlo Park, California, called Medical Sciences Developing.霍勇是创刊主编。最初几期由一家登记在加州门洛帕克、名为 Medical Sciences Developing 的出版公司参与推出。
That imprint no longer appears on published papers. The name in the imprint line of the National Library of Medicine record is a trace of the launch arrangement, while new articles carry Wolters Kluwer's address.这家公司如今不再出现在论文上。美国国家医学图书馆记录里那条出版者是创刊时安排的痕迹，新文章落款已经换成 Wolters Kluwer。
Two DOI prefixes mark the change. Papers from 2016 to 2021 are registered under 10.4103, and everything from 2022 onward sits under 10.1097 with the stem cp9.两个 DOI 前缀标出了这次转手。2016 到 2021 年的论文注册在 10.4103 下，2022 年起全部挂到 10.1097 那一支。
Volume 1 carried 31 papers across four issues. Volume 2 fell to three issues and 18 papers, the low point of the early years.第 1 卷四期共 31 篇。第 2 卷落到三期 18 篇，是早年的低谷。
Output has swung since. Volumes 3 to 6 held between 24 and 32 papers a year, volume 7 dropped to 16, and volume 10 rose to 36.此后产量一直在摆。第 3 到第 6 卷每年 24 到 32 篇，第 7 卷只剩 16 篇，第 10 卷回升到 36 篇。
Volume 7 is the year of two issues. Volume 8 is missing from the registration agency's deposit altogether, so the public record steps from 2022 to 2024 without a note.第 7 卷那年只出了两期。第 8 卷在注册机构的存缴里整卷缺失，公开记录从 2022 年一步跨到 2024 年，也没有脚注解释。
The deposit holds 271 records. That is the whole run in one place, and the size is what a quarterly of this age should hold.存缴里共 271 条记录。整段刊史都在这一个地方，这个体量正是一份这样年纪的季刊该有的。
Scopus admitted the journal on 23 December 2022, six years after the first issue.Scopus 在 2022 年 12 月 23 日收录这份刊，距离创刊号已过去六年。
The citation index came later still, and the journal sits in the emerging sources list rather than in the science citation index expanded.引文索引来得更晚，刊物列在新兴来源名单里，没有进自然科学引文索引扩展版。
The 2025 impact factor is 2.4. The journal citation indicator is 0.30 and the percentile is 50.8, which puts the title at 117 of 237 in cardiac and cardiovascular systems.2025 年影响因子是 2.4。期刊引文指标 0.30，百分位 50.8，在心血管系统门类 237 种刊里排第 117 位。
Total citations stand at 245 and the cited half-life is 2.4 years. A journal this young is either cited fast or barely cited, and the pair of numbers says the first.总被引 245 次，引用半衰期 2.4 年。这么年轻的刊要么被引得很快，要么几乎没人引，两个数字说的是前者。
The citable count of 33 against 24 articles in the same year explains the arithmetic. Consensus documents and reviews enter the denominator and bring their citations with them.那一年可引文献 33 篇、论文 24 篇，这个差额解释了算法的走向。共识与综述也进分母，也把引用一起带来。
Frequency is recorded differently in two places. The National Library of Medicine has bimonthly, while the publisher and the hosting platform say quarterly, and four issues a year in the deposit supports the second.频率在两处写得不一样。国家医学图书馆记作双月刊，出版方与托管平台说是季刊，存缴里一年四期的排法支持后一种。
PubMed takes selected citations only. A reader who wants the full run has to go to the publisher's platform, where the archive reaches back to the first volume.PubMed 只做选择性收录。想读全卷的读者得去出版方平台，那里的存档回溯到第 1 卷。
Editors
Junbo Ge is editor-in-chief, and the hosting platform prints his name in the masthead line of the journal.主编是葛均波，托管平台在刊头一行印着他的名字。
Yong Huo's name belongs to the founding years, and the two of them cover the run between them, one at the opening and one at the present.霍勇的名字属于创刊那几年，两个人前脚后脚把整段刊史盖住了，一个在开头，一个在当下。
The editorial board lists 42 members from ten countries. For a society journal with a national remit that is a deliberate reach outward, and the foreign names are not decorative.编委会 42 人，来自十个国家。对一份以本国为根基的学会刊来说，这是有意往外伸手，外国名字不是摆设。
A youth editorial board was set up in 2023 with 33 members. Their work is the part of editing that costs time rather than judgement, which is watching the flow of submissions and finding referees for it.2023 年另设青年编委 33 人。他们做的是编辑工作里耗时而不用判断的那一段，看稿流，替稿子找审稿人。
Review is single anonymous. The referee knows who wrote the paper and the author does not know who reviewed it, and the instructions page states the model in one line.评审是单匿名的。审稿人知道稿子是谁写的，作者不知道稿子经了谁的手，投稿须知页一句话写明了这个模式。
The board page is the address the directory files for the journal. Roster and posts sit on that one page, so the shape of the editorial structure can be read without asking anyone.编委页是目录机构替这份刊登记的编委地址。名单与职务都挂在同一个页面上，编辑结构长什么样不必问人就能看出来。
Post-publication handling is visible from outside. In 2026 the journal published an expression of concern on a paper about extracorporeal membrane oxygenation combined with hemoperfusion in acute myocardial infarction.发表之后的处理从外面看得见。2026 年刊物对一篇讲体外膜肺氧合联合血液灌流治疗急性心肌梗死的论文发出了关注声明。
The consensus documents carry institutional authorship. The 2025 consensus on transcatheter aortic valve replacement has no personal byline, which is how a society speaks through its own journal.共识文件署的是集体名。2025 年那篇经导管主动脉瓣置换共识没有个人署名，学会借自己的刊物说话就是这个样子。
That arrangement adds a step before the desk. A consensus reaches the journal through the society's expert panels, and the manuscript still goes through review like any other.这种安排在编辑桌前多了一道。共识经学会的专家组来到刊物，稿子照样要走评审，与别的稿子没有两样。
The office publishes its own numbers. In 2023 it received 56 submissions, declined 18 of them, and printed 35 articles across four issues, of which 24 were research or review.编辑部公布自己的数字。2023 年收到 56 篇投稿，退掉 18 篇，四期共印 35 篇，其中研究与综述 24 篇。
Correspondence runs through the same system as research. Letters to the editor appear with volume, issue and DOI, so a complaint about method is as citable as the paper it attacks.通信稿与研究稿走同一套系统。读者来信带卷期与 DOI，对方法的质疑与它质疑的那篇论文一样可引。
An editor-in-chief, a founding name and a board of 42 behind them is a large apparatus for 24 citable articles a year. The reason is the consensus programme, which needs a standing panel for every device field the journal covers.一位主编，一个创刊的名字，背后 42 位编委，对一年 24 篇可引文献来说这套班子偏大。原因是共识计划，每个器械方向都要有一组常设人马。