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Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2025)

In 2025, many CDT authors make outstanding contributions to our journal. Their articles published with us have received very well feedback in the field and stimulate a lot of discussions and new insights among the peers.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields, with a brief interview of their unique perspective and insightful view as authors.

Reviewer of the Month (2025)

In 2025, CDT reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

Join us at the 105th Annual Meeting of American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)

The 105th Annual Meeting of American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) is going to be held at the Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA from May 2 to 5, 2025: https://events.aats.org/am25.

As the world's most prestigious thoracic surgery event, the annual meeting of AATS helps grow one’s expertise, network with leading experts, and build the future of thoracic surgery.

This year Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) as well as its sister journals and books published by AME Publishing Company will be on display during this exciting academic event! We would like to seize this great opportunity to meet our authors, editorial board members and readers.

2024 Annual Report of CDT

Greetings from Prof. Paul Schoenhagen and Editorial Office of CDT!

We are glad to present the 2024 Annual Report of CDT here. In 2024, CDT has made great progress under the join-efforts of experts worldwide. In 2024, the impact factor of CDT is 2.1. The yearly citations of CDT is 2414 in the past 2024. More information is shown in the Annual Report.

Interviews with Editorial Board Members

CDT features a distinguished editorial board, the members of which continue to instill the power of their expertise for the journal’s development. By launching this column, we are glad to introduce to you some of them in the form of interviews, in which they will share their unique career experiences and perspectives. We believe their insights will shed light on the knowledge of related fields.

New Impact Factor for Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy : 2.1

We are pleased to announce that Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) has attained its latest impact factor update for the 2023 citation year: 2.1.

We strive to follow the best practices in publishing. The announcement of the journal’s latest impact factor is not only a significant achievement for the journal but also strengthens our commitment to further advance our journal. We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all our Editorial Team Members, Guest Editors, authors, reviewers and readers for their significant contributions.

Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2023 CiteScore Released: 4.9

We are pleased to announce that the Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) has received its 2023 CiteScore: 4.9, ranking 124 out of 387 journals in the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine category.

Furthermore, we are delighted to highlight the remarkable achievements made by all AME journals in the CiteScore ranking.

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PDF Pages: 20-24 Full Text (165) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

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Original Article

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Exploring the causal association between congenital heart disease and stroke based on two-sample Mendelian randomization

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Brief Report

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Review Article on Heart Failure in the Young and Old: Insights into Various Therapies

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Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) is an open access, peer-reviewed, international English-language journal indexed by PubMed/PubMed Central and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). The journal publishes manuscripts that describe novel findings in the diagnosis and therapy of cardiovascular diseases including contributions related to clinical cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, public heath, nursing, sociology, human genetics, basic sciences, education, and the environment.