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Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
A. M. Abd El-Aty, PhD, Cairo University, Egypt
Christine Meisinger, MPH, University of Augsburg, Germany

Founding Editor
Undurti N. Das, MD, FAMS, FRSC, FICP, UND Life Sciences, United States of America

Review Editors
Gregory C. Henderson, PhD, Purdue University, United States of America

Associate Editors
Leonelo E Bautista, MD, MPH, DrPH, University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States of America
Ioannis Bellos, MD, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Jerzy Bełtowski, MD, PhD, Medical University of Lublin, Poland
Benoît Chénais, PhD, Le Mans University, France
Margery A. Connelly, PhD, MBA, FAHA, Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, United States of America
Vincenzo Di Marzo, PhD, Université Laval, Canada
Luiz Claudio Fernandes, PhD, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
Felice Gragnano, MD, PhD, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy
Ahmet Hacımüftüoğlu, PhD, Atatürk University, Türkiye
Ji Hoon Jeong, Chung-Ang University, Korea (South)
Albert Koulman, PhD, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Fei Luo, MD, PhD, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, China
Dimitri Mikhailidis, MSc, MB, MD, University College London, United Kingdom
Catherine Mounier, PhD, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Mariana Osako, PhD, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Demosthenes Panagiotakos, MD, FRSPH, FACE, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Jun Ren, MD, PhD, FAHA, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, China
Gautam Sethi, PhD, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Giovanni Tarantino, MD, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Xianbin Zhang, MD, PhD, Shenzhen University, China
Yanqiao Zhang, MD, Northeast Ohio Medical University, United States of America

Editorial Board
Maciej Banach, MD, PhD, FNLA, FAHA, FESC, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
Andras Bikov, MD, PhD, Manchester University, United Kingdom
Christa Buechler, PhD, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany
Gaojun Cai, MD, Wujin Hospital, affiliated with Jiangsu University, China
Marcio Chedid, MD, PhD, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Erkan Cüre, MD, Medilife Hospital, Türkiye
Simon Dyall, PhD, University of Roehampton, United Kingdom 
Federica Fogacci, MDc, University of Bologna, Italy
Yung-Sheng Huang, I-Shou University, Taiwan
Krishnendu Khan, PhD, Cleveland Clinic, United States of America
Stefan Lorkowski, PhD, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Mauro Maccarrone, PhD, University of Teramo, Italy
Parmanand Malvi, PhD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States of America
Kazuo Miyashita, PhD, Hokkaido University, Japan
Teruo Miyazawa, PhD, Tohoku University, Japan
Naoshad Muhammad, PhD, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America
James Ntambi, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America
Nathalie Pamir, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University, United States of America
Wensheng Pan, Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, China
Laszlo Puskas, PhD, DSc, Avidin Ltd., Hungary
Leonardo Roever, MHS, PhD, MBA, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil
David Russ, PhD, University of South Florida, United States of America
Naoki Tanaka, MD, PhD, Shinshu University, Japan
Vibeke Telle-Hansen, PhD, OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet, Norway
Natsuo Ueda, PhD, Kagawa University, Japan
Yuming Wang, PhD, Ocean University of China, China
Anna Wolska, MS, PhD, FAHA, National Institutes of Health, United States of America
Teruyoshi Yanagita, PhD, Saga University, Japan
Xianbin Zhang, Shenzhen University, China

Statistician Advisory board member
Amany Mousa, MD, Cairo University, Egypt

Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact 2023
    Journal Impact Factor: 3.9
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 4.3
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.220
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.112

    Speed 2023
    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 1
    Submission to acceptance (median days): 68

    Usage 2023
    Downloads: 1,810,907
    Altmetric mentions: 1,488