Structural Heart: Volume Volume 5 (Issue 1 to Issue 6)

Advancing Cardiovascular Knowledge: Structural Heart’s Pioneering Open Access Platform

Unveiling a New Chapter in Cardiovascular Research

Starting January 2022, Structural Heart has evolved into an open-access journal, providing authors with the unique opportunity to make their contributions instantly, enduringly, and freely available to a global audience. While embracing this transformative model, the journal has maintained its core principles, including its mission, editorial team, submission processes, and stringent peer-review standards.

Key Features and Author Benefits:

1. Open Access Empowerment: Authors published in Structural Heart gain the advantage of open access, ensuring the immediate and enduring accessibility of their work. This transition aligns with the journal’s commitment to fostering a culture of unrestricted knowledge dissemination.
2. Consistency in Excellence: Amidst this shift to open access, Structural Heart remains steadfast in its mission, maintaining the same aims and scope, dedicated editorial team, submission system, and rigorous peer-review process. This consistency ensures that the journal continues to be a trusted source of high-quality research in the realm of structural heart diseases.
3. Author-Centric Approach: Authors retain copyright to their published work, and the journal introduces an Article Publishing Charge (APC) system. The APC is levied after the completion of peer review and acceptance, offering authors flexibility and ownership over the dissemination of their research.

Focus Areas:

Structural Heart stands as a distinctive, international, and peer-reviewed open-access journal with a specialized focus on the diagnosis and treatment of heart valve diseases, myocardial conditions, great vessel disorders, and congenital heart diseases. The journal also emphasizes the pivotal role of the heart team in these processes.

Comprehensive Coverage:

Encompassing a broad spectrum of topics, Structural Heart delves into transcatheter procedures, cardiovascular surgery, drug treatments, basic and translational science, and imaging in structural heart disease. The journal also spotlights innovations such as new devices, therapies, and first-in-humans studies. Each issue presents a blend of original research, reviews, opinion pieces, editorials, and impactful images in cardiovascular disease.

Calling Trailblazers in Cardiovascular Research:

Researchers, clinicians, and pioneers in cardiovascular science are invited to contribute to Structural Heart and be part of this groundbreaking phase in cardiovascular research. The journal serves as a dynamic platform for disseminating discoveries, advancements, and insights that shape the future of structural heart care.

Volume 5, Supplement 1: Pages 1-63 (June 2021)

Volume 5, Issue 1: Pages 1-3 (January–February 2021)

Volume 5, Issue 2: Pages 140-162 (March–April 2021)

Volume 5, Issue 3: Pages 226-234 (May–June 2021)

Volume 5, Issue 4: Pages 342-343 (July–August 2021)

Volume 5, Issue 5: Pages 486-531 (September–October 2021)

Volume 5, Issue 6: Pages 549-620 (November–December 2021)