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International Journal of Cardiology

peer-reviewed scientific journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ2357863 ↗
Source-derived summary

The International Journal of Cardiology is a peer-reviewed medical journal that publishes research articles about the study and management of cardiac diseases. The journal is affiliated with the International Society for Adult Congenital Cardiac Disease.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE, Science Citation Index, Current Contents, EMBASE, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2020 impact factor of 4.164.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “International Journal of Cardiology” is peer-reviewed scientific journal. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through International, Journal and Cardiology, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-01-01. For this dossier, International, Journal and Cardiology is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “peer-reviewed scientific journal” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2357863. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “International Journal of Cardiology” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.