Aims and scope

Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology publishes evidence-based original research, reports, editorials, perspectives, reviews and commentaries covering the following topics:

  • prevention
  • metabolic disorders influencing cardiac risk
  • coronary heart disease
  • arrhythmias and pacing
  • heart failure
  • cardiomyopathies
  • methodologies
  • treatment
  • percutaneous and invasive techniques
  • outcomes
  • adult congenital heart disease
  • cardiovascular genetics


Emphasis is placed upon translation of important basic research, updated information about classical topics, scholarly discussions of controversial topics, and incisive, salient manuscripts relevant either to conceptualization or practice of cardiology.

Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology will no longer consider meta-analyses for publication.