Almost daily on my emails there is a new open access (online) medical journal requesting a manuscript from me, or asking that I review a manuscript received by them. During a recent 2-month period, I counted at least 26 heart-related journals ( Table 1 ) and at least 75 non-heart related journals ( Table 2 ). Most do not have a physician as editor and few are included on PubMed. Medicine went from a physician editor of international distinction to a non-physician editor of unknown qualifications. Most of the online journals charge authors to publish their manuscripts and not the readers for reading them, the reverse of hundreds of years of publishing. Some of these online journals not only request reviews from physicians of the submitted manuscripts but also request that physicians recommend names of appropriate reviewers, and some request that physicians actually manage groups of manuscripts as visiting editors. A young investigator might be tempted to submit his/her manuscript to one of the open-access journals after receiving a gracious invitation to do so rather than submit the manuscript to an established journal. I realize that online publishing without print publishing will probably be the future for most present-day print journals but that change has not occurred yet so I recommend staying with the print journals as long as they use that medium. Academic careers will not be built by publishing in the open access journals with non-physician editors.
| AIMS Medical Science (Cardiology Section) |
| Annals of Clinical and Experimental Hypertension |
| Archives of Clinical Hypertension (India) |
| BioMed Research International (Cardiology) |
| Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal |
| Cardiovascular System |
| Eurointervention |
| Heart and Vessels |
| International Journal of Cardiovascular Research |
| Invasive Cardiology: Future Medicine |
| Journal of Cardiac Anesthesia |
| Journal of Cardiac Circulation |
| Journal of Cardiology and Clinical Research |
| Journal of Cardiovascular Disorders |
| Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiology |
| Journal of Cardiovascular Research |
| Journal of Clinical Trials in Cardiology |
| Journal of Heart & Cardiology |
| Journal of Heart Health |
| Journal of Interpretive Cardiology |
| HSOA Journal of Cardiology & Neurocardiovascular Diseases |
| Open Journal of Thoracic Surgery |
| Research in Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Research Reports in Clinical Cardiology |
| Scientific Journal of Cardiac Circulation |
| The Anatolian Journal of Cardiology |
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