Heart is an international peer reviewed journal that keeps cardiologists up to date with important research advances in cardiovascular disease. New scientific developments are highlighted in editorials and put in context with concise review articles. There is one free Editor’s Choice article in each issue, with open access options available to authors for all articles. Education in Heart articles provide a comprehensive, continuously updated, cardiology curriculum.

Heart promotes active interchange among researchers and readers to come together as a community to advance science and improve patient care via regular free audio podcasts, letters to the Editor, and news via Twitter and Facebook.
Heart is an official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society and is endorsed by the following societies:
British Cardiovascular Intervention Society
British Congenital Cardiac Association
British Society of Cardiovascular Imaging
British Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
British Society for Cardiovascular Research
Irish Cardiac Society

Heart is the flagship of BMJ's cardiology portfolio and has an open access companion journal, Open Heart.