Journal Overview

Structural and Congenital Heart Disease

ISSN:3071-1738 (online)

Formerly, Congenital Heart Disease

Aims & Scope

Structural and Congenital Heart Disease is committed to publishing high-quality research covering structural heart diseases—including those involving the cardiac valves, myocardium, pericardium, great vessels, conduction system and others—as well as congenital heart diseases across the full lifespan. The journal aims to establish a leading multidisciplinary platform that promotes deeper understanding of these conditions and supports the continued development of basic science, clinical research, and technological innovation in this field.

Scope of Coverage

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Clinical Care and Prevention: Surgical and transcatheter interventions, electrophysiology and arrhythmias, perioperative and critical care, long-term outcomes, secondary prevention, rehabilitation, and population-level prevention strategies.

2. Diagnostics and Disease Mechanisms: Multimodality imaging, physiology, epidemiology, genetics, and molecular pathways.

3. Cross-Disciplinary and Emerging Fields: Developmental biology, data science, behavioral and psychological sciences, and other interdisciplinary approaches.

4. Disease-Specific Focus: Conditions such as end-stage heart disease, Kawasaki disease, and other congenital or acquired structural disorders.

Article Types

Original Research Article

Review

Guideline and Consensus Statement

Case Report

Editorial

Letter to Editor

Commentary

Readership: Structural and Congenital Heart Disease is created for a multidisciplinary readership involved in the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients with structural and congenital heart diseases. The readership includes cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, interventional therapists, radiologists, anesthesiologists, critical care physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and medical trainees.

Publication Frequency

Bi-monthly

Ownership

The journal is owned by Tech Science Press.

Societies and Affiliations

Official Journal of Children's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

Open Access

All articles published will be Gold open access under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0), and are made freely and permanently accessible online from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to the Open Access Policy.

Archiving

All journals published by TSP are archived in Portico, which provides permanent digital archiving for scholarly journals.

Ethics Statement

TSP takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure adding the highest quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. TSP takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously on every level. Our staff are trained to identify and report any irregularities. Our editors follow Guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and proceed with a zero tolerance policy for ethical violations, including plagiarism, data falsification and authorship misconduct. To confirm the originality of all submitted manuscripts, we use iThenticate for similarity checks against prior publications.