Circulation-Cardiovascular Imaging

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging is a peer-reviewed cardiology journal published by Wolters Kluwer on behalf of the American Heart Association, launched in 2008 as a companion to Circulation and devoted to multimodality cardiovascular imaging, and it holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.1《循环：心血管影像》（Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging）是威科集团（Wolters Kluwer）代表美国心脏协会（American Heart Association）出版的同行评审心脏病学期刊，2008 年作为《循环》（Circulation）的姊妹刊创刊，专注多模态心血管影像，2025 年影响因子为 9.1。

Scope

• The journal presents high-quality, patient-centric articles focusing on observational studies, clinical trials and advances in applied and translational research该刊发表高质量、以患者为中心的文章，聚焦观察性研究、临床试验以及应用与转化研究的进展。
• It features innovative and multimodality approaches to the diagnosis of and risk stratification for cardiovascular disease该刊聚焦心血管疾病诊断与危险分层的创新、多模态方法。
• Covered imaging modalities include echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy涉及的影像模态包括超声心动图、心脏计算机断层扫描以及心脏磁共振成像与波谱。
• They also include magnetic resonance angiography, cardiac positron emission tomography and radionuclide imaging还包括磁共振血管成像、心脏正电子发射断层扫描（PET）与放射性核素成像。
• Further modalities are noninvasive assessment of vascular and endothelial function, molecular imaging and others其他模态还有血管与内皮功能的无创评估、分子影像等。
• Article types include Original Research, Research Letters and Advances in Cardiovascular Imaging其文章类型包括原创研究、研究快报与心血管影像进展（Advances in Cardiovascular Imaging）。
• They also take in Clinical Implications of Molecular Imaging Research, How to Use Imaging and Translating Novel Imaging Technologies into Clinical Applications还包括分子影像研究的临床意义、如何使用影像，以及将新型影像技术转化为临床应用。
• The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and placed in the first quartile of the Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging category, ranked 10th of 217 titles该刊被科学引文索引扩展版（SCIE）收录，在放射学、核医学与医学影像类位居第一四分位，于 217 种刊中排名第 10。

History

• The journal was launched in July 2008 as the third new journal in the American Heart Association family and a companion to Circulation该刊于 2008 年 7 月创刊，是美国心脏协会（AHA）期刊家族中的第三本新刊、《循环》的姊妹刊。
• It was founded with Marcelo F. Di Carli of Brigham and Women's Hospital as its first editor首任主编为（Brigham and Women's Hospital）的 Marcelo F. Di Carli。
• Robert J. Gropler of Washington University in St Louis took over as Editor-in-Chief in 20182018 年，华盛顿大学（Washington University in St Louis）的 Robert J. Gropler 接任主编。^[1]
• The journal carries the print identifier 1941-9651 and the electronic identifier 1942-0080该刊印刷刊号为 1941-9651，电子刊号为 1942-0080。
• It is published monthly by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, part of Wolters Kluwer Health该刊由威科医疗（Wolters Kluwer Health）旗下的利平科特·威廉斯与威尔金斯（Lippincott Williams & Wilkins）按月出版。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 7.792 in 2021 and 8.589 in 2022 to 7.0 in 2024 and 9.1 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 7.792 与 2022 年的 8.589 变为 2024 年的 7.0 与 2025 年的 9.1。
• It follows a subscription model with a hybrid open access option, and gold open access accounts for about one-fifth of its articles该刊采用订阅制并设有混合开放获取选项，金色开放获取约占其文章的五分之一。

Editors

• Robert J. Gropler of Washington University School of Medicine is the Editor-in-Chief and works on cardiovascular positron emission tomography主编为华盛顿大学医学院（Washington University School of Medicine）的 Robert J. Gropler，从事心血管正电子发射断层扫描研究。
• He has studied PET imaging of the cardiovascular system for more than thirty years and directs the Division of Radiological Sciences at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology他研究心血管系统的（PET）成像逾三十年，并主管马林克罗特放射学研究所（Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology）的放射科学部门。
• Paul C. Cremer of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine serves as a Senior Associate Editor西北大学范伯格医学院（Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine）的 Paul C. Cremer 任高级副编辑。
• Nishath Quader of Washington University serves as Section Editor for the Cardiovascular Images section华盛顿大学的 Nishath Quader 任心血管影像图片栏目的栏目编辑。
• The editorial board draws together cardiovascular imaging specialists in echocardiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance and nuclear cardiology from several countries编委会汇聚了来自多个国家、涵盖超声心动图、计算机断层扫描、磁共振与核心脏病学方向的心血管影像专家。
• Manuscripts are submitted and handled through the publisher's online Editorial Manager system and undergo peer review稿件经出版方的在线（Editorial Manager）系统投稿与处理，并接受同行评审。