Journal of the American Heart Association

The Journal of the American Heart Association is an open-access cardiology journal published online by Wiley on behalf of the American Heart Association, launched in 2012, and its 2025 impact factor is 6.0.（Journal of the American Heart Association）是 Wiley 代表美国心脏协会在线出版的开放获取心脏病学期刊，2012 年创刊，2025 年影响因子为 6.0。

Scope

• It considers all types of original research, including experiments conducted in human subjects and in laboratory animals.该刊接收各类原创研究，包括在人体与实验动物中进行的试验。
• It includes high-quality applied clinical, epidemiological and health care policy papers related to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.包括与心脑血管疾病相关的高质量应用临床、流行病学与卫生政策论文。
• Content areas include arrhythmia and electrophysiology, congenital and coronary heart disease, heart failure and hypertension.内容领域包括心律失常与电生理、先天性心脏病与冠心病、心力衰竭与高血压。
• Further areas include epidemiology, exercise physiology, genetics and translational biology, imaging, stroke and vascular medicine.其他领域包括流行病学、运动生理学、遗传学与转化生物学、影像学、卒中与血管医学。
• Articles are published online only, with no limits on article length or on the number of references.文章仅在线出版，篇幅与参考文献数量均不受限制。

History

• The journal was launched in 2012 by the American Heart Association as an online-only open-access journal, with its first issue in February 2012.该刊 2012 年由美国心脏协会创办，为其在线开放获取期刊，首期于 2012 年 2 月出版。
• It is published by Wiley on behalf of the association.该刊由 Wiley 代表协会出版。
• Articles are published individually online and compiled into issues twenty-four times a year.文章逐篇在线出版，每年汇编为 24 期。
• Its 2025 impact factor is 6.0, and the acceptance rate for original research was 18 per cent in 2025.其 2025 年影响因子为 6.0，2025 年原创研究的录用率为 18%。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Bruce Ovbiagele, a stroke neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco.现任主编为 Bruce Ovbiagele，就职于（University of California，San Francisco）的卒中神经病学专家。
• He took up the post in January 2023, succeeding Barry London.他于 2023 年 1 月接任，接替 Barry London。
• The journal is edited by a team of editors, statistical consultants and reviewers drawn from the American Heart Association.该刊由来自美国心脏协会的编辑、统计顾问与审稿人团队负责编辑。
• All articles undergo rigorous peer review, with a mean time from submission to first decision of about twenty-two days.所有文章均经严格同行评审，从投稿到首次决定的平均时间约为 22 天。