Journal Guide

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging publishes high-quality, patient-centric articles focusing onobservational studies, clinical trials, and advances in applied (translational) research featuring innovative, multimodality approaches to diagnosis and risk stratifications of cardiovascular disease. Modalities covered include echocardiography, cardiac computed tomography, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, magnetic resonance angiography, cardiac positron emission tomography, noninvasive assessment of vascular and endothelial function, radionuclide imaging, molecular imaging, and others. In addition to original articles, robust review series will feature clinically relevant, disease-based reviews on current applications of imaging. The series features novel imaging technologies and their potential clinical role, reviews on methodological and analytical issues affecting imaging-based research, as well as translational aspects of molecularly targeted imaging research.American Heart Association Premium Professional Members receive online access to all 6 new AHA Circulation Portfolio of Journals through December 31, 2008. Premium Professional Members also qualify for special rates on print subscriptions. Early Career and Student/Trainee members are eligible for special rates on print subscriptions, or for a nominal fee can access all 11 AHA Scientific Journals online. General Professional Members pay the Non-Member Individual rate.

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions focuses on interventional techniques pertaining to coronary artery disease, structural heart disease, and vascular disease, with priority placed on original research and on randomized trials and large registry studies that will significantly advance your practice and your patients' outcomes. In addition, pharmacological, diagnostic, and pathophysiological aspects of interventional cardiology will be given special attention.Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions will be complemented by special sections such as letters to the editor, imaging case reports, and additional features, providing a worldwide forum for all professionals interested in the study and application of interventional therapies.AHA/ASA Premium Professional Members receive online access to all 6 new AHA Circulation Portfolio of Journals through December 31, 2008. Premium Professional Members also qualify for special rates on print subscriptions. Early Career and Student/Trainee members are eligible for special rates on print subscriptions, or for a nominal fee can access all 11 AHA Scientific Journals online. General Professional Members pay the Non-Member Individual rate.

Cirugía Cardiovascular es el órgano oficial de la Sociedad Española de Cirugía Torácica y Cardiovascular (SECTCV) y actúa como herramienta de expresión de todos los cirujanos torácicos y cardiovasculares de habla hispana. La misión de la Sociedad Española de Cirugía Torácica y Cardiovascular es asegurar la calidad en el ejercicio de las cirugías torácica y cardiovascular mediante la formación, la promoción de la investigación, el desarrollo y difusión de estándares y guías, y su influencia sobre las políticas sanitarias a nivel nacional.

Cirugía Española, es el Órgano Oficial de la Asociación Española de Cirujanos, sociedad científica que engloba a la mayoría de cirujanos generales españoles y de diferentes subespecialidades de la cirugía.
La revista es el mejor exponente del desarrollo técnico y conceptual de la cirugía española, de tal manera, que en sus páginas se dedica una creciente atención a los aspectos biológicos y clínicos de la patología quirúrgica, trascendiendo así al acto operatorio que en constituía el centro de atención principal de esta área de la medicina.
Los contenidos de la revista se estructura en las secciones de Originales, Revisiones, Cartas Científicas, Imagen del Mes y Cartas al director, y los artículos se seleccionan y publican tras un riguroso análisis, siguiendo los estándares internacionalmente aceptados. Cirugía Española cuenta desde 2008 con una versión en inglés.

Cirugía Española is the official publication of the Asociación Española de Cirujanos (Spanish Association of Surgeons), which is an association comprised of the majority of Spanish surgeons from different surgical sub-specialties.

The Journal is the best platform for presenting technical and conceptual advances made in Spanish surgery. Furthermore, its pages have been giving an increasing amount of attention to the biological and clinical aspects of surgical pathologies, thereby transcending surgery alone, which was formerly the main focal point of this area of medicine.

The content of Cirugía Española is organized into the following sections: Original Articles, Review Articles, Case Reports, Image of the Month and Letters to the Editor. The articles are selected and published after rigorous analysis in accordance with internationally accepted standards. An English edition of the Journal has also been published since 2008.Cirugía Española is included in prominent online databases, including Science Citation Index, Medline/Pubmed and SCOPUS.

La revista Cirugía y Cirujanos es el órgano de difusión científica de la Academia Mexicana de Cirugía, institución fundada en 1933, órgano consultivo del Gobierno Federal en materia de salud y política social y asesor del Consejo de Salubridad General de México. Su membresía es de 421 destacados profesionistas de 64 especialidades médicas, quirúrgicas y de profesionistas de áreas afines a la salud, lo cual ha contribuido a dar cuerpo, estructura, doctrina, misión, visión y prestigio a la cirugía y a la medicina mexicana en el contexto internacional.

Cirugía y Cirujanos es exponente del desarrollo académico, científico, médico, quirúrgico y tecnológico en materia de salud en México y en el ámbito internacional. Se editan en forma bimestral en inglés y en español artículos científicos originales, casos clínicos, artículos de revisión de interés general y cartas al editor. Los artículos se seleccionan y publican siguiendo un riguroso análisis, de acuerdo a los estándares internacionalmente aceptados.

Cities & Health provides an innovative new international platform for consolidating research and know-how for city development to support human health. The journal is committed to developing a shared evidence base, encouraging better cross-disciplinary understanding and supporting critical trans-disciplinary practices. The journal will publish papers and commentary from researchers and practitioners working to build a new wisdom for supporting healthier cities.

Cities & Health explores the drivers of urban change through the lenses of health and health equity. From climate change to the digital city, from city leadership to community resilience, cities all over the world are in transition. The journal will cover a wide range of topics but public health needs to be at the heart of the discourse.

Cities & Health promotes greater discourse between the many disparate professions and disciplines involved. The journal invites contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including, but not limited to:

• built environment, including: urban design, planning, architecture, transport, landscape and city governance;
• public health, including: epidemiology, health economy, public health advocacy and community health;
• experts in many other relevant fields, such as psychology, human behaviour, geography, environmental resources, cultural studies, communications and the arts.  

Building impact through City Know-how

Through practitioner involvement, Cities & Health will develop a close relationship with cities, allowing researchers to test new knowledge for real world impact and accelerate the dissemination of their findings. Unique to this journal authors will be asked to provide a one page lay summary of their papers specifically to illustrate its relevance for the practitioner community and to inform city authorities. A forum of city leaders and practitioners who are already fostering change will review these lay summaries. We will support authors with this process, which is aimed at increasing real world impact. These City Know-how pages, with associated commentary, will be widely circulated.

Cities increasingly want to act as laboratories for revealing problems and testing solutions. Cities & Health is an invitation to forge a new placed-based trans-disciplinary alliance for health; an alliance involving theorists, researchers, educators and practitioners.

Peer Review Statement

All Research Articles are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by at least two, independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind. 

The primary aims of the journal are to analyze and assess past and present urban development and management as a reflection of effective, ineffective and non-existent planning policies; and the promotion of the implementation of appropriate urban policies in both the developed and the developing world.

Topics covered include: urban adaptation to climate change; gentrification and housing; homelessness and welfare services; urban management; public-private sector cooperation; development and planning problems; urban regeneration; neighborhood conservation and urban design; immigration and international labor migration; urban politics; urban theory; urban governance; smart cities and regions; infrastructure; livability and quality of life; greening; and the complexities of creating sustainable cities.

Every year, we also publish a handful of Viewpoints. These are articles that are shorter in nature, summative in their literature review, and offer a particular argument that could potentially generate debates among scholars and practitioners.

Each volume also features one or more City Profiles. Coverage includes a brief description of the city's historical development, an account of contemporary conditions, problems or issues, and a critical review of recent or current policy, planning or management responses.

Full details of Cities' accepted manuscript types, topics, word limits and editorial policies, as well as topics we do not accept, can be found in the http://www.journals.elsevier.com/cities/policies-and-guidelines/cities-acceptance-policy-guidelines/Cities Acceptance Policy on the journal's website.