Guidelines

Interventional Cardiology is a prominent periodic publication which focuses on clinical investigations, technical advancements, and innovations in cardiovascular medicine. The Interventional Cardiology publishes original research articles based on related to research relevant to cardiology, as well as editorials, review articles, and clinical observations as case reports, experimental studies and theoretical concepts, short commentaries, Videos, power-point slides and interviews are most welcome.

Interventional Cardiology welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Submitted Papers will subject to peer review process and will be published approximately 10 days after acceptance.

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As a member of Publisher International Linking Association, PILA, Open Access Journals follows the Creative Commons Attribution License and Scholars Open Access publishing policies.

Interventional Cardiology [eISSN: 1755-5310]

Journal open access, copyright, licensing and archiving policy

• Interventional Cardiology Journal allows the authors to retain the copyright of their contributions while granting non-exclusive licensing to the publisher to publish and distribute the article and identify the publisher as the original source.

• The published articles are made available to the readers for free of charge and without any other forms of restrictions. The full-text of the article is available for download and reuse. The readers can freely access, copy and reuse the published article content provided they give attribution by acknowledging the authors in their reference and citing the original source of the publication. The publication and distribution license is granted to the publisher and the licensing terms are added by the publisher in the final editorial accepted and published version of the article.

• Interventional cardiology is green open access Journal as per the Sherpa/RoMeo categorization. The open access pathways permitted by the journal policy are as follows: For the submitted and accepted version, authors own the copyright and are encouraged to post their published article to the institutional repositories without any embargo period provided the publisher source is acknowledged. The published articles are archived in the journal repository under creative commons attribution license CC-BY [4.0] terms.

Open Access Journals Policy Regarding the NIH Mandate

Open Access Journals will support authors by posting the published version of articles by NIH grant-holders and European or UK-based biomedical or life sciences grant holders to PubMed Central immediately after publication

Editorial Policies and process

Open Access Journals follow a progressive editorial policy that encourages researchers to submit the original research, reviews and editorial observations as articles, well supported by tables and graphic representation.

Human rights, Animal rights and Informed Consent

• This policy has been adopted to publish responsible research findings and to endure that all the necessary approvals and consents have been obtained prior to publication of the outcomes.

• Authors need to testify that their research has been carried out in accordance with the procedure approved by the respective ethical committees of their organizations. The Editor of the journal takes the final decision on the acceptance and rejection of the manuscript that are subjected scrutiny of issues regarding human and animal ethics.

• Clinical research/trials involving human data, human specimens and human subjects must have been performed in accordance with Helsinki Declaration of the World Medical Association in 1975 as revised in 2008 concerning Human and Animal Rights under the approval of ethics committee.

• Justification of the clinical procedure followed may have to be furnished if required by the editor or peer reviewer.

• Authors are expected to secure informed consent for participation in the study by the human subjects.

• The experimental procedure and the outcomes involving animal models must comply with the National or International guidelines. Manuscript must include the details (guidelines/permissions/licenses) of such compliance with appropriate references and specifications.

Data sharing

• Scholarly data includes clinical data, quantitative survey observations, statistical algorithms, transcripts, experimental data, images, videos, audios, etc. The data can be in raw or processed form.

• The journal encourages sharing of data associated with the research publications for enhancing the chances of accurate reproducibility, better peer-review, better funding opportunity and citations.

• The authors are encouraged to share research data in public data repositories under open access policy and license terms. Accessibility to the shared data may be indicated in the publications in the form of URL.

• The data linked to the DOI of the journal enables precise identification and retrieval.

Submission

Article submissions should be done using the Online Submission System Editor Manager System or through E-mail IDs manuscripts@openaccessjournals.com  provided at the respective journal’s site.

Resubmission

When you have altered your paper in light of the peer reviewer’s comments and you have written a covering letter to the editor explaining the changes you made or refuting the reviewer’s comments, you are ready to resubmit.
Try to resubmit as soon as you can. Generally, this makes it easier to do as the paper is still fresh in your mind. The scientific world moves very quickly so you want your work published before someone else produces similar work. Once you have resubmitted you will see the status of the paper changed within a specific span of time. If you don’t see this or don’t receive any acknowledgment of your resubmission, please check with the Editorial staff and confirm the receipt of the article by the Editorial Office.

Article Processing Charges (APC) :

Open Access Journals is self-financed and does not receive funding from any institution/government. Hence, the Journals operate solely through processing charges we receive from the authors and some academic/corporate sponsors. The handling fee is required to meet its maintenance. Being an Open Access Journal Group, journals do not collect subscription charges from readers that enjoy free online access to the articles. Authors are hence required to pay a fair handling fee for processing their articles. However, there are no submission charges. Authors are required to make payment only after their manuscript has been accepted for publication.

Note: The basic article processing fee or manuscript handling cost is as per the price mentioned below on the other hand it may vary based on the extensive editing, colored effects, complex equations, extra elongation of no. of pages of the article, etc.

Average Article prorcessing time (APT) is 55 days

Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process):

Interventional Cardiology is participating in the Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process (FEE-Review Process) with an additional prepayment of $99 apart from the regular article processing fee. Fast Editorial Execution and Review Process is a special service for the article that enables it to get a faster response in the pre-review stage from the handling editor as well as a review from the reviewer. An author can get a faster response of pre-review maximum in 3 days since submission, and a review process by the reviewer maximum in 5 days, followed by revision/publication in 2 days. If the article gets notified for revision by the handling editor, then it will take another 5 days for external review by the previous reviewer or alternative reviewer.

Acceptance of manuscripts is driven entirely by handling editorial team considerations and independent peer-review, ensuring the highest standards are maintained no matter the route to regular peer-reviewed publication or a fast editorial review process. The handling editor and the article contributor are responsible for adhering to scientific standards. The article FEE-Review process of $99 will not be refunded even if the article is rejected or withdrawn for publication.

The corresponding author or institution/organization is responsible for making the manuscript FEE-Review Process payment. The additional FEE-Review Process payment covers the fast review processing and quick editorial decisions, and regular article publication covers the preparation in various formats for online publication, securing full-text inclusion in a number of permanent archives like HTML, XML, and PDF, and feeding to different indexing agencies.

Author Withdrawal Policy

Authors are free to withdraw an article at no charge as long as it is withdrawn within 5 days of its initial submission. After an article is accepted, processing is initiated. If an article is withdrawn after its acceptance, then 50% of publication charges will be charged as a withdrawal fee. Withdrawal requests must be submitted in writing to the editorial office, including the article title, author names, and reason for withdrawal. The withdrawal fee must be paid within a specified period. This withdrawal policy aims to maintain transparency, fairness, and efficiency in managing the publication process. We appreciate the understanding and cooperation of our authors in adhering to this policy.