About the Society

Aims and objectives: Society for Journal of Practice of Cardiovascular Sciences
The objectives for which this society is established are:

1. To educate medical professionals on the diseases of the heart. The primary objective will be achieved by creating a journal called the Journal of Practice of Cardiovascular Sciences.
2. To conduct public awareness programs for promoting education and awareness of the general public for early detection and management of Heart diseases all over India.
3. To encourage and promote the welfare of patients with heart diseases and other diseases affecting the heart.
4. To promote scientific collaboration among its members and make guidelines regarding standards for their professional conduct.
5. To promote heart disease interventions.
6. To organize conferences, lectures, scientific meetings, seminars, exhibitions on heart disease and to publish journals and newsletters or other publication on heart disease which the society desirable to achieve and promote the objectives of the society.
7. To function as a ‘think tank‘ and provide expert advice to a physician, scientist, industries and health care authorities.
8. To encourage basic and clinical scientists to collaborate with each other in combating heart disease.
9. To raise the standards of cardiovascular teaching and writing through the journal started by the society.

About the Journal

Journal of the Practice of Cardiovascular Sciences, a publication of Society for Journal of Practice of Cardiovascular Sciences, is a peer-reviewed online journal with 3 Issues print on demand compilation of issues published. The journal’s full text is available online at http://www.j-pcs.org/. The journal allows free access (Open Access) to its contents and permits authors to self-archive the final accepted version of the articles on any OAI-compliant institutional / subject-based repository.

As per MCI regulations 2020 (  BOARD OF GOVERNORS IN SUPERSESSION OF MEDICAL COUNCIL OF INDIA NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 12th February 2020 No. MCI-12(2)/2019-Med.Misc./189334.), original papers, reviews, and case series published in journals indexed in Directory of Open Access Journals (DoAJ) will be considered for promotion.

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

The journal is indexed with, or included in, the following:
DOAJ, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Web of Science

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Open Access Publication and Creative Commons Licensing

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The journal is a journal for Residents and PhD scholars. It is a Teaching journal which will reflect the teaching patterns of AIIMS and similar institutions with bedside clinics, seminars, journal reviews, statistical discussions, quizzes and many other interesting ways to learn cardiovascular sciences. Basic science will be reflected by articles from laboratory medicine, genetics and molecular cardiology with our partner institutes like Jawahar Lal Nehru University, IGIB, Delhi University and many others. There is a Fellows Forum to encourage writing by the trainees. The journal will cover technical and clinical studies related to health, ethical and social issues in the field of Cardiovascular sciences, Cardiology, Cardiac surgery, Cardiac radiology, Cardiac anesthesia, Molecular cardiology, cardiovascular pharmacology, cardiovascular physiology and cardiac pathology. Basic science reports will be encouraged.

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