title: Journal of the American Heart Association
text: # Journal of the American Heart Association
  
  Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal and an official journal of the American Heart Association. Since 2015, it is also published with John Wiley & Sons. It was established in 2012 and the editor-in-chief is Bruce Ovbiagele (University of California, San Francisco).
  
  ## Scope
  
  The journal publishes all types of original research articles, including studies conducted with human subjects and experimental models, as well as applied clinical, epidemiological, and healthcare policy papers related to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * Academic Search
  * EMBASE
  * Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
  * Science Citation Index Expanded
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 6.107, ranking it 42nd out of 143 journals in the category "Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems".
  
  