Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
Does the world need more heart failure journals? Or maybe even more aptly, would the world of medicine and research be a better place, if there were more heart failure journals? We believe the answer to both questions is yes. Crucially, the board of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) was supportive, as was the ESC Publication Committee, the ESC Board, and the publisher Wiley. As the editorial group being responsible for this new publishing project, we first of all want to thank the HFA and the ESC for their support, help, and trust in making this new journal—of which you now see the first issue—a reality. ESC Heart Failure is one of three new open access journals of the ESC—the other two journals in the pipelines will focus on case reports (ESC Case Reports) and quality assessments in medicine and health economics (EHJ: Clinical Outcomes her email is eschf.editorialoffice@wiley.com. We know that the journal has an uphill struggle ahead, and we are fully aware that there is no impact factor for the next 3–4 years, which has all sorts of implications. We want this publication project to succeed, and we want to work together with you to achieve that. We want to make you feel that you are contributing to a worthwhile and strong source of knowledge. We will not have much money for parties to promote the journal like our friends can do, but we will visit their parties and meetings, if still invited. And we have cell phones that are turned on (in the case of the Editor-in-Chief as many know a pretty old one, but it works), and we read our emails approximately 360 of 365 days. We promise that we will be fast and flexible. And now, let us start working for ESC Heart Failure, the young sister of EJHF.
Anker et al. (Mon,) studied this question.