Aims and Scope

The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical, and social issues in fields of Cardiothoracic, vascular, transplant Anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine and related associated fields such as cardiovascular physiology and pharmacology. Articles with clinical interest and implications will be given preference.

Abstracting and Indexing Information:

​The journal is registered with the following abstracting partners:
Baidu Scholar, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, Ex Libris – Primo Central, Google Scholar, Hinari, Infotrieve, National Science Library, ProQuest, TDNet, Wanfang Data

Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing:

​This is an open-access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given, and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.

​Digital Archiving

Ahead of Print Policy:

​Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. EJCA has a policy that changes will not be made after the publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Advertisements:

​While advertisements are crucial to this journal to be able to keep all content free for everyone, ethical considerations are in place to ensure the integrity of the journal and its content:

  • "Pop-up" and "banner" ads appear on a random, rotating basis. The advertiser has no control or input over the pages where their ads appear.
  • The Editorial Board has full and final approval over the content of all advertisements.
  • Advertisers will never be shown any manuscripts or other content before publication.