Journal of Clinical Medicine 2023 Editorial Board Meeting of the Section “Cardiovascular Medicine” Held on 12 December 2023

The Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM, ISSN: 2077-0383) held an Editorial Board Meeting for the Section “Cardiovascular Medicine” on 12 December 2023. We greatly appreciate the Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Nathan Wong, for hosting this meeting and there were 12 Editorial Board Members in attendance.

The meeting started with a presentation about the development of the journal and the Section “Cardiovascular Medicine”, with the following information being presented:

1. Journal history, publication statistics, distribution of scholars (2018–2023), open access benefits, journal awards, 2024 ECCM Conference, promotion on social media;
2. Geographical distribution of the Section’s Editorial Board Members, decision-making statistics, and Section statistics.

The meeting mainly discussed hot topics and emerging themes within the Section, the geographical distribution of our authors, Feature Paper invitations, quality control for both reviewers and review reports, tools for detecting plagiarism and AI generation, society collaborations, social media promotion, etc.

Based on the discussion, the journal intends to keep an eye on trending topics within the Section, investigate new themes, promote publications more widely, conduct meetings on specific cardiovascular topics, fortify its collaboration with the societies that our Editorial Board Members are part of, and improve publicity for the 2024 ECCM Conference, among other things.

We would like to thank every Editorial Board Member and the academics for their great support. We look forward to receiving more support and suggestions so that we can continue our progress together.

Attendee list (in no particular order):

• Nathan Wong (Section Editor-in-Chief), Division of Cardiology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA;
• Theofilos M. Kolettis, 1st Cardiology Department, University Hospital of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece;
• Roberto De Ponti, Department of Heart and Vessels, Ospedale di Circolo-University of Insubria, Varese, Italy;
• Piero Pollesello, Critical Care, Orion Pharma, Espoo, Finland;
• Alejandro De la Sierra, Hypertension Unit, Hospital Mutua Terrassa, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;
• Ronald J. Krone, Division of Cardiovascular, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MI, USA;
• Karol Kaminski, Department of Population Medicine and Lifestyle Disease Prevention, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland;
• Roberto Pedrinelli, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerche Cardiovasolari (INRC), Via Irnerio, Bologna, Italy;
• Rita Pavasini, Cardiology Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy;
• Alexander H. Maass, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands;
• Jeffrey L. Anderson, Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute, Murray, UT, USA;
• Ioannis Vogiatzis, Department of Cardiology, General Hospital of Veroia, Veroia, Greece.

The latest official CiteScore (2022 Scopus data) for the Journal of Clinical Medicine is 5.4, ranking 137/830 (Q1) in the area of “General Medicine”. The current Impact Factor of JCM is 3.9 (2022), ranking 58/167 (Q2) in the category “Medicine, General & Internal”.

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To access more information about the Section, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/sections/Cardiovascular_Medicine.