Annals of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

About The Journal Open Access

The Annals of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery journal is an open access journal that considers for publication of articles in all fields of cardiovascular research. The thrust area of cardiovascular research includes etiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnostics and therapeutic approaches of heart diseases and injuries, congenital heart defects, and coronary artery diseases.

The Journal publishes articles in the form of clinical reports, case studies, review articles, research articles, Editorials, Short communications scientific correspondences, Image Articles, Abstracts, commentary articles. 

The journal encompasses current research on interventional cardiology, neurology, cardiac imaging, heart failure, stem cell therapy, heart surgery, thorax surgery, cardiomyopathy, valvular heart diseases, valvuloplasty, angioplasty and pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment of cardiac diseases, etc. The Journal is using Editorial Tracking System for easy online tracking and managing of the manuscript processing. Each article undergoes a peer-review process under the aegis of an assigned Editor.

You may submit manuscripts Online or You may submit manuscripts as an email attachment to us cardiovasthor@journalres.com.

Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process):

Annals of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery is participating in the Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process) with an additional prepayment of $99 apart from the regular article processing fee. Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process is a special service for the article that enables it to get a faster response in the pre-review stage from the handling editor as well as a review from the reviewer. An author can get a faster response of pre-review maximum in 3 days since submission, and a review process by the reviewer maximum in 5 days, followed by revision/publication in 2 days. If the article gets notified for revision by the handling editor, then it will take another 5 days for external review by the previous reviewer or alternative reviewer.

Acceptance of manuscripts is driven entirely by handling editorial team considerations and independent peer-review, ensuring the highest standards are maintained no matter the route to regular peer-reviewed publication or a fast editorial review process. The handling editor and the article contributor are responsible for adhering to scientific standards. The article FEE-Review process of $99 will not be refunded even if the article is rejected or withdrawn for publication.

The corresponding author or institution/organization is responsible for making the manuscript FEE-Review Process payment. The additional FEE-Review Process payment covers the fast review processing and quick editorial decisions, and regular article publication covers the preparation in various formats for online publication, securing full-text inclusion in a number of permanent archives like HTML, XML, and PDF, and feeding to different indexing agencies.