Global Heart

Journal Title：Global Heart

Global Heart offers a forum for dialogue and education on research, developments, trends, solutions and public health programs related to the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) worldwide, with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Manuscripts should address not only the extent or epidemiology of the problem, but also describe interventions to effectively control and prevent CVDs and the underlying factors. The emphasis should be on approaches applicable in settings with limited resources.

Economic evaluations of successful interventions are particularly welcome. We will also consider negative findings if important. While reports of hospital or clinic-based treatments are not excluded, particularly if they have broad implications for cost-effective disease control or prevention, we give priority to papers addressing community-based activities. We encourage submissions on cardiovascular surveillance and health policies, professional education, ethical issues and technological innovations related to prevention.

Global Heart is particularly interested in publishing data from updated national or regional demographic health surveys, World Health Organization or Global Burden of Disease data, large clinical disease databases or registries. Systematic reviews or meta-analyses on globally relevant topics are welcome. We will also consider clinical research that has special relevance to LMICs, e.g. using validated instruments to assess health-related quality-of-life in patients from LMICs, innovative diagnostic-therapeutic applications, real-world effectiveness clinical trials, research methods (innovative methodologic papers, with emphasis on low-cost research methods or novel application of methods in low resource settings), and papers pertaining to cardiovascular health promotion and policy (quantitative evaluation of health programs.

Global Heart 为全球范围内预防和控制心血管疾病 (CVD) 的研究、发展、趋势、解决方案和公共卫生计划提供了一个对话和教育的论坛，特别关注中低收入国家 (LMIC)。稿件不仅应解决问题的程度或流行病学，还应描述有效控制和预防 CVD 及其潜在因素的干预措施。重点应放在资源有限的情况下适用的方法上。

特别欢迎对成功干预措施进行经济评估。如果负面发现很重要，我们也会考虑。虽然医院或诊所治疗的报告不被排除，特别是如果它们对具有成本效益的疾病控制或预防具有广泛的影响，但我们优先考虑涉及社区活动的论文。我们鼓励投稿关于心血管监测和健康政策、专业教育、道德问题和预防相关技术创新的文章。

Global Heart 特别希望发表来自最新国家或地区人口健康调查、世界卫生组织或全球疾病负担数据、大型临床疾病数据库或登记处的数据。欢迎对全球相关主题进行系统评价或荟萃分析。我们还将考虑与中低收入国家特别相关的临床研究，例如使用经过验证的工具评估中低收入国家患者的健康相关生活质量、创新诊断治疗应用、真实世界有效性临床试验、研究方法（创新方法论文，重点是低成本研究方法或在资源匮乏环境中的新方法应用）以及与心血管健康促进和政策相关的论文（健康计划的定量评估）。

Global Heart创刊于2011年，由Elsevier Science & Technology出版商出版，收稿方向涵盖Medicine - Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine全领域，此刊是中等级别的SCI期刊，所以过审相对来讲不是特别难，但是该刊专业认可度不错，仍然是一本值得选择的SCI期刊 。平均审稿速度 5 Weeks ，影响因子指数3，该期刊近期没有被列入国际期刊预警名单，广大学者值得一试。