Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, and the American Heart Association (AHA) have announced an innovative venture to publish a new open access journal, Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease. The journal is scheduled for launch later this year.
The Journal of the American Heart Association will serve as the first online-only open access journal for the AHA. It joins the AHA's portfolio of 11 peer-reviewed print and online subscription-based scientific journals, including Circulation; Stroke; Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology; Circulation Research; and Hypertension.
The journal will provide rapid publication based on rigorous peer review, aiming for three weeks from acceptance to online publication. It will enable authors to be fully compliant with open access requirements of funding organisations and institutions where they apply. All articles will be freely available on HighWire, the journal's ePublishing platform, and deposited in PubMed Central immediately upon publication.
The AHA has appointed Dr. Joseph Vita as Editor in Chief of the journal. Dr. Vita is Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and Associate Chief of Cardiology for Academic Affairs at Boston Medical Center. He is the current Deputy Editor of the AHA journal Circulation, an active contributor on numerous study sections for the NIH and AHA, and Supervisor of a translational research program in vascular biology.
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