Europace

Europace is a monthly peer-reviewed cardiology journal published by Oxford University Press, founded in 1999 as the first specialty journal of the European Society of Cardiology and now issued under the name EP Europace—EHJ Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology as the official journal of the European Heart Rhythm Association, fully open access since 1 January 2023, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 10.2《欧洲心律》（Europace）是牛津大学出版社（Oxford University Press）出版的月刊同行评审心脏病学期刊，1999 年创刊，是欧洲心脏病学会（ESC）的首份专科期刊，现以（EP Europace—EHJ Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology）之名出版，为欧洲心律协会（EHRA）官方期刊，自 2023 年 1 月 1 日起完全开放获取，2025 年影响因子为 10.2。

Scope

• The journal aims to provide an international avenue of communication for top-quality research in the fields of arrhythmias, cardiac electrophysiology and pacing该刊旨在为心律失常、心脏电生理与起搏领域的高质量研究提供国际交流渠道。
• It is the official journal of the European Heart Rhythm Association, an association of the European Society of Cardiology, and of the ESC Working Group on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology, and it serves as the main communication platform of the association该刊是欧洲心律协会（EHRA）——欧洲心脏病学会（ESC）下属协会——以及（ESC）心脏细胞电生理工作组的官方期刊，是该协会的主要交流平台。
• It publishes clinical consensus documents of the association, and eight landmark consensus documents appeared in 2024 alone, four of them written with the Heart Rhythm Society, the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society and the Latin American Heart Rhythm Society该刊发表协会的临床共识文件，仅 2024 年就刊出八份里程碑式共识文件，其中四份与美国心律协会（HRS）、亚太心律协会（APHRS）和拉丁美洲心律协会（LHRS）合作完成。
• Its content spans original peer-reviewed research, reviews, invited papers, editorial comments, correspondence and book reviews其内容涵盖原创同行评审论文、综述、邀稿、评论、通讯与书评。
• The journal became a full open access journal on 1 January 2023, which widened the international visibility of each accepted article including in regions with limited access to science该刊于 2023 年 1 月 1 日转为完全开放获取期刊，扩大了每篇录用文章的国际可见度，覆盖科学资源有限的地区。
• It is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, MEDLINE, EMBASE and Current Contents, and it holds the first quartile in the cardiac and cardiovascular systems category with a rank of 17 out of 237 titles该刊被（SCIE）、（Scopus）、（MEDLINE）、（EMBASE）与（Current Contents）收录，在心脏与心血管系统类期刊中位居第一四分位，排名为 237 种刊中的第 17 位。

History

• The journal builds on the European Journal of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, launched in 1991 under editor-in-chief Richard Sutton, which ceased publication in 1997 without being included in PubMed or obtaining an impact factor该刊承袭 1991 年创刊的《欧洲心脏起搏与电生理学杂志》（European Journal of Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology），该刊由（Richard Sutton）任主编，1997 年停刊，未被（PubMed）收录也未获得影响因子。
• On the initiative of Panos Vardas, the board of the European Society of Cardiology supported a new journal, and Richard Sutton was appointed its first editor-in-chief in 1998, with the inaugural issue published in January 1999在（Panos Vardas）的推动下，欧洲心脏病学会（ESC）理事会支持创办新刊，（Richard Sutton）于 1998 年被任命为首任主编，创刊号于 1999 年 1 月出版。
• It was the first specialty journal of the society, and its first issue carried a study group report on the management of atrial fibrillation and the design of the SAFE PACE 2 randomised trial该刊是学会的首份专科期刊，创刊号刊载了房颤管理研究组报告与（SAFE PACE 2）随机试验的设计方案。
• Editors-in-chief have been Richard Sutton until 2007, John A. Camm from 2007 to 2018, Gerhard Hindricks from 2018 to 2022 and Angelo Auricchio for the two years that followed历任主编为（Richard Sutton）（至 2007 年）、（John A. Camm）（2007 至 2018 年）、（Gerhard Hindricks）（2018 至 2022 年）与（Angelo Auricchio）（其后两年）。
• Giuseppe Boriani of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy assumed the editor-in-chief post on 1 January 2025, succeeding Angelo Auricchio意大利摩德纳和雷焦艾米利亚大学（University of Modena and Reggio Emilia）的（Giuseppe Boriani）于 2025 年 1 月 1 日接任主编，前任为（Angelo Auricchio）。
• The journal was renamed EP Europace—EHJ Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology, a change recorded in the editorial published for its twenty-fifth anniversary该刊已更名为（EP Europace—EHJ Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology），二十五周年社论中记录了这一变化。
• Its impact factor rose from 5.214 in 2021 and 5.486 in 2022 to 7.4 in 2024 and 10.2 in 2025, and the journal reached volume 28 in 2026其影响因子由 2021 年的 5.214 与 2022 年的 5.486 升至 2024 年的 7.4 与 2025 年的 10.2，2026 年已出版至第 28 卷。

Editors

• Giuseppe Boriani is the editor-in-chief and works at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy（Giuseppe Boriani）任主编，任职于意大利摩德纳和雷焦艾米利亚大学（University of Modena and Reggio Emilia）。
• Four executive editors support him, namely Elijah Behr of St George's University of London, Luigi Di Biase of Montefiore Hospital in the United States, Jens Cosedis Nielsen of Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark and Katja Odening of the University of Bern in Switzerland四位执行编辑协助其工作，分别是伦敦圣乔治大学（St George's University of London）的（Elijah Behr）、美国蒙特菲奥里医疗中心（Montefiore Hospital）的（Luigi Di Biase）、丹麦奥胡斯大学医院（Aarhus University Hospital）的（Jens Cosedis Nielsen）与瑞士伯尔尼大学（University of Bern）的（Katja Odening）。
• Deputy and associate editors are organised into about a dozen specialty sections covering atrial fibrillation epidemiology and stroke prevention, antiarrhythmic drugs, basic electrophysiology, cardiac imaging in electrophysiology, devices, clinical genetics, ablation, digital health, electrocardiography, robotics, paediatric electrophysiology, social media, sudden death and syncope副主编与助理编辑按十余个专业分组设置，覆盖房颤流行病学与卒中预防、抗心律失常药物、基础电生理、电生理心脏影像、器械、临床遗传学、消融、数字健康、心电图、机器人技术、儿科电生理、社交媒体、心源性猝死与晕厥等领域。
• Richard Sutton is remembered as the founding editor, and past editors include John A. Camm, Gerhard Hindricks and Angelo Auricchio（Richard Sutton）为创刊主编，历任主编还包括（John A. Camm）、（Gerhard Hindricks）与（Angelo Auricchio）。
• An editorial consultant list of roughly 150 international experts supports the board, alongside statistical consultants and the EHRA young electrophysiology committee约 150 位国际专家组成的编辑顾问名单为编委会提供支持，另设统计顾问与（EHRA）青年电生理委员会。