STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the launch of two new open access journals in its cardiology journals series - International Journal of Cardiology-Heart & Vessels and International Journal of Cardiology-Metabolic & Endocrine.
Heart disease is the leading cause of deaths worldwide, with nearly 600,000 deaths in the US alone in 2011, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both new journals will publish essential research in the field of cardiology open access, enabling the latest research to be freely available worldwide. Prof. Michael Henein, Umeå Heart Centre, Sweden, will be the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cardiology (IJC): Heart & Vessels.
Prof. Giuseppe Rosano, of the IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Italy, will serve as Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Cardiology (IJC): Metabolic & Endocrine which will be devoted to cardiovascular medicine in general and to the interplay between the cardiovascular system metabolism and hormones in particular. The journal will also publish articles reporting the effect of clinical trials and therapeutic interventions affecting the metabolic and/or hormonal influences on the cardiovascular system.
The first open access issues of both journals have been published and are now freely available on ScienceDirect.
