About Us

About the Society

The Society of Cardiovascular Academy is an organization comprised of medical professionals, including family physicians, cardiologist, internist, cardiovascular surgeons, nurses and technologists, who are involved in the treatment of supporting services to patients with cardiovascular diseases. Founded in 2007 and initially called the Cardiovascular Academy Society in 2014.

Aims and Objectives:

● Improving public awareness in cardiovascular health, and the advancement of quality standards to enhance patient care.

● Promote the education and activities relating to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease through the development of cardiovascular health knowledge and practice.

● Convening scientific meetings and educational programs on a regional and international basis.

● To publish newsletter, magazines and journals on cardiovascular topics.

● Developing and maintaining an internal and external network, both nationally and internationally.

● Support and promote researches in the field of cardiovascular diseases.

To establish contacts and co-operations with national associations and societies and in other countries having objectives wholly or partly similar to those of our Association.

About the Journal

International Journal of the Cardiovascular Academy, a publication of Cardiovascular Academy Society, is a double-blind peer-reviewed print + online Quarterly journal. The journal's full text is available online at http://ijcva.com/. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

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, Netherlands ISSN centre, ProQuest, TDNet, Wanfang Data

The journal is indexed with, or included in, the following: DOAJ

Journal Ethics

Wolters Kluwer and Journal/Association are committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit www.Medknow.com/EthicalGuidelines.asp

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-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 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

Wolters Kluwer Medknow provides for long-term digital preservation through two primary partnerships, Portico and CLOCKSS.

Portico is a leading digital preservation service worldwide. The content is preserved as an archival version and is not publically accessible via Portico, but is provided when required under specific conditions, such as discontinuation of the collection or catastrophic failure of the website.

CLOCKSS will enable any library to maintain their own archive of content from Wolters Kluwer Medknow and other publishers, with minimal technical effort and using cheaply available hardware.

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. Wolters Kluwer Medknow has a policy that changes will not be made after publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

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 prior to publication.

Scope of the journal

International Journal of the Cardiovascular Academy (ISSN - Print: 2405-8181, Online: 2405-819X), a publication of Cardiovascular Academy Society, is a peer-reviewed print + online in the field of cardiology, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. From 2015, every volume of this journal will consist of 4 issues. The journal's full text is available online at http://ijcva.com/. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

IJCA will publish original articles, review articles, case reports, letter to the editor and new techniques in cardiovascular research and disease therapy such as interventional cardiology, hypertension, cardiomyopathy, heart failure, arrhythmia and electrophysiology, acute and chronic coronary syndromes, peripheral arterial disease, congenital heart diseases , vascular biology, clinical pharmacology, valvular heart disease, pediatric cardiology and cardiovascular surgery.

Medknow Publications

Medknow, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is one of the largest open access publishers worldwide with more than 450+ medical journals in its portfolio. Students, researchers, clinicians and other healthcare professionals worldwide access Medknow journals to help them fuel new discoveries and improve patient care.

Founded in 1997, Medknow is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports many of the popular open access models through its peer-review management system. Medknow’s open access policy has resulted in more than a half a million article downloads monthly for all of its journals.

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