Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases

Research on the heart and the coronary arteries, from the clinic and from the laboratory, is what JOCD publishes. Its papers so far fall into four groups: coronary artery disease, such as serum uric acid and angiographic severity in chronic stable angina; cardiac surgery; cardiovascular risk and prevention; and heart failure after myocardial infarction together with cardiac rehabilitation. They have appeared as studies, reviews and surgical case reports.

It serves cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, rehabilitation teams and cardiovascular scientists who want clinicians to be able to read their findings openly. Recent JOCD authors include a cardiac surgery division describing how an embolised transcatheter mitral repair device was removed from the right coronary artery, clinicians comparing bempedoic acid results in out-patient care with the phase 3 trials, and pathologists counting mast cells in the coronary adventitia.

The online ISSN is 2831-3437 and the short form of the title is JOCD; Directive Publications is the publisher. Several cardiovascular journals carry very similar names, so giving the ISSN next to the title keeps a citation or a database search unambiguous.

No, not at present: JOCD does not currently hold a Journal Impact Factor. Searches for an impact factor under this or a near-identical title often return the metrics of other cardiovascular journals, including an older journal with a similar title, so confirm that any figure you see is tied to ISSN 2831-3437 before you quote it.

Yes, by double-blind review. Once the editors confirm that a manuscript fits the journal and is complete, independent referees assess an anonymised file, and the authors are not told who reviewed it. Decisions rest on the scientific case alone; payment and waiver questions are handled by the administrative office, and the editors and referees take no part in them.

Yes. Anyone can read a JOCD article or download its PDF on directivepublications.org without registering or paying. The authors remain the copyright holders, and the CC BY 4.0 licence allows others to copy, adapt or translate the work provided the original article is credited.

There is no charge to send in a manuscript or to have it peer reviewed. JOCD raises an article-processing charge only after a manuscript is accepted, and a rejected paper owes nothing; the current amount for your article type is displayed in the online submission system. Authors without grant or institutional funding can request a full waiver or a partial discount by writing to the editorial office when they submit; the Publication Charges and Waiver Policy pages set out the criteria.

To send JOCD a paper, open the Submit page of directivepublications.org and select Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases as the target journal. Upload the title page, with names, affiliations, ORCID iDs and the funding statement, as a file separate from the anonymised manuscript, cite in Vancouver numbered style, and attach the EQUATOR checklist for your design, such as STROBE for a cross-sectional angiography study or PRISMA for a systematic review. A clinical trial must be registered before the first patient is enrolled, with the registration number given in the abstract.

Yes. JOCD has published surgical case reports, for example an isolated right-ventricular abscess found months after repair of a penetrating cardiac wound, and it considers cases that change how a heart or vessel condition, a device complication or a rare presentation is recognised or treated. Keep the report under 2,000 words and structure it with the CARE checklist; it must state that the patient gave written informed consent, and any image or detail that could identify the patient needs its own explicit consent to publication.

Research on patients or on their records must name the approving ethics committee or institutional review board together with its reference number, confirm that the work followed the Declaration of Helsinki, and state that written informed consent was obtained. Animal work, such as the rabbit vein-graft model JOCD has published, must report approval from the institution's animal-welfare body and comply with the ARRIVE guideline.

Search 2831-3437 in the ISSN Portal and check that the record carries the title Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases and points to directivepublications.org. Then make sure the article, call for papers or email in front of you names the same ISSN and Directive Publications as publisher, and that its links lead to the journal's home page at directivepublications.org/journal-of-cardiovascular-diseases.

No. Many cardiovascular titles share most of these words, including an older journal with an almost identical title, and JOCD is affiliated with none of them. JOCD is the title published by Directive Publications under ISSN 2831-3437; when a search result, citation or invitation mentions a similarly named journal, those two details show whether it is this one.

JOCD follows the COPE guidelines together with the ICMJE Recommendations. Every submission is checked for text similarity before review, and problems found after publication, from authorship disputes to concerns about data, are settled through corrections, expressions of concern or retractions as COPE advises.