Journal Title：Global Heart

Global Heart offers a forum for dialogue and education on research, developments, trends, solutions and public health programs related to the prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) worldwide, with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Manuscripts should address not only the extent or epidemiology of the problem, but also describe interventions to effectively control and prevent CVDs and the underlying factors. The emphasis should be on approaches applicable in settings with limited resources.

Economic evaluations of successful interventions are particularly welcome. We will also consider negative findings if important. While reports of hospital or clinic-based treatments are not excluded, particularly if they have broad implications for cost-effective disease control or prevention, we give priority to papers addressing community-based activities. We encourage submissions on cardiovascular surveillance and health policies, professional education, ethical issues and technological innovations related to prevention.

Global Heart is particularly interested in publishing data from updated national or regional demographic health surveys, World Health Organization or Global Burden of Disease data, large clinical disease databases or registries. Systematic reviews or meta-analyses on globally relevant topics are welcome. We will also consider clinical research that has special relevance to LMICs, e.g. using validated instruments to assess health-related quality-of-life in patients from LMICs, innovative diagnostic-therapeutic applications, real-world effectiveness clinical trials, research methods (innovative methodologic papers, with emphasis on low-cost research methods or novel application of methods in low resource settings), and papers pertaining to cardiovascular health promotion and policy (quantitative evaluation of health programs.

Global Heart 為全球范圍內預防和控制心血管疾病 (CVD) 的研究、發展、趨勢、解決方案和公共衛生計劃提供了一個對話和教育的論壇，特別關注中低收入國家 (LMIC)。稿件不僅應解決問題的程度或流行病學，還應描述有效控制和預防 CVD 及其潛在因素的干預措施。重點應放在資源有限的情況下適用的方法上。

特別歡迎對成功干預措施進行經濟評估。如果負面發現很重要，我們也會考慮。雖然醫院或診所治療的報告不被排除，特別是如果它們對具有成本效益的疾病控制或預防具有廣泛的影響，但我們優先考慮涉及社區活動的論文。我們鼓勵投稿關于心血管監測和健康政策、專業教育、道德問題和預防相關技術創新的文章。

Global Heart 特別希望發表來自最新國家或地區人口健康調查、世界衛生組織或全球疾病負擔數據、大型臨床疾病數據庫或登記處的數據。歡迎對全球相關主題進行系統評價或薈萃分析。我們還將考慮與中低收入國家特別相關的臨床研究，例如使用經過驗證的工具評估中低收入國家患者的健康相關生活質量、創新診斷治療應用、真實世界有效性臨床試驗、研究方法（創新方法論文，重點是低成本研究方法或在資源匱乏環境中的新方法應用）以及與心血管健康促進和政策相關的論文（健康計劃的定量評估）。

Global Heart創刊于2011年，由Elsevier Science & Technology出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋Medicine - Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine全領域，此刊是中等級別的SCI期刊，所以過審相對來講不是特別難，但是該刊專業認可度不錯，仍然是一本值得選擇的SCI期刊 。平均審稿速度 5 Weeks ，影響因子指數3，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預警名單，廣大學者值得一試。