Journal of Rare Cardiovascular Diseases

Thanks to reviewers: Thanks to reviewers: 2018-2019

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board are thankful to the following colleagues for their tremendous but significant assistance in reviewing articles submitted to the journal in 2018-2019.

Taras Bidovanets (Ukraine)

Piotr Błaszczak (Poland)

Leszek Bryniarski (Poland)

Remigijus Bubnys (Lithuania)

Adam Budzikowski  (Poland)

Karol Curila (Czech Republic)

Rafał Drwiła  (Poland)

Pawel Dimitrow (Poland)

Ewa Dziewięcka  (Poland)

Andrea Eickhoff Óhidy (Germany)

Egle Ereminiene (Lithuania)

Michał Furdal (Poland)

Krystyna Guzek  (Poland)

Yuriy Ivaniv (Ukraine)

Szymon Jonik  (Poland)

Remigiusz Kazimierczyk (Poland)

Roman Komorovsky (Poland)

Małgorzata Krawczyk-Kuliś  (Poland)

Joanna Łuszczak (Poland)

Maciej Machaczka  (Poland)

Jacek Majewski  (Poland)

Aleksandra Mamzer-Dachnowska (Poland)

Patrycja Matusik (Poland)

Arnold Méndez Toro (Columbia)

Łukasz Niewiara  (Poland)

Alexander Nossikoff (Poland)

Paulius Orda (Lithuania)

Grzegorz Opolski  (Poland)

Jacek Pajak (Poland)

Anna Prochwicz  (Poland)

Andrzej Przybylski  (Poland)

Wojciech Rychlik (Poland)

Zoriana Salamańczuk  (Poland)

Agata Schramm-Luc  (Poland)

Aleksander Siniarski (Poland)

Sebastian Stec  (Poland)

Anna Szyszkowska (Poland)

Agnieszka Wojtkowska (Poland)

Maciej Wybraniec  (Poland)

Ewa Wypasek  (Poland)

Dorota Zyśko   (Poland)

Indexation: Scopus and PMB

It is with great pleasure that I announce that JRCD has been accepted for inclusion into the Scopus database. This important achievement emphasizes the fact that our continual improvements bring us closer to being assigned an Impact Factor and increases the visibility of the research that we publish.
JRCD is also available in Polish Medical Bibliography created by Central Medical Library in Warsaw.

Piotr Podolec
Editor‑in‑Chief

Evaluation by the Index Copernicus International 2016

Dear Readers,

It is my great pleasure to inform, that once again, Journal of Rare Cardiovascular Diseases successfully underwent evaluation by the Index Copernicus International and has been indexed in the IC Journal Master List receiving Index Copernicus Value of 87.76 points. To our great satisfaction the Value improved significantly since last year. Let me therefore thank, all the authors, reviewers, members of editorial board, editors and publisher, who helped us not only to sustain this achievement for the next year but also to steadily improve the quality of the Journal. I truly believe that this success will attract another authors to submit their works for the Journal and encourage reviewers to commit their time to refine the quality of published manuscripts.

Piotr Podolec
Editor-in- chief

JRCD on the ICMJE list of Journals

Dear Readers,

The Journal of Rare Cardiovascular Diseases has been listed on the ICMJE’s Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.

Thanks to reviewers: Thanks to reviewers: 2015

Let me thank, on behalf of the Editorial Board and Editorial Office Members, each and all of the following colleagues for their significant contribution to the development of the Journal by reviewing articles submitted to the Journal in 2015.

• Piotr Błaszczak
• Michał Buczyński
• Leszek Drabik
• Nader Elmasri
• Egle Ereminiene
• Anna Fijałkowska
• Krzysztof Gryga
• Piotr Hoffman
• Małgorzata Jasiewicz
• Karol Kamiński
• Małgorzata Knapp
• Takahide Kodama
• Jacek Kołcz
• Piotr Kukla
• Andrzej Kułach
• Piotr Liszniański
• Joanna Łuszczak
• Katarzyna Małaczyńska-Rajpold
• Agnieszka Małolepszy
• Aurimas Mikalauskas
• Skaidrius Miliauskas
• Magdalena Mizia
• Katarzyna Mizia-Stec
• Deddo Moertl
• Tatiana Mularek-Kubzdela
• Jacek Nowak
• Rasa Ordiene
• Nelia Oryshchyn
• Anna Orzechowska
• Szymon Pawlak
• Jurgita Plisiene
• Karol Sanecki
• Mateusz Sidor
• Henryk Siniawski
• Maciej Sobień
• Elżbieta Suchoń
• Maciej Suski
• Lesław Szydłowski
• Olga Trojnarska
• Anna-Maria Wnuk-Wojnar
• Maciej Wybraniec

Piotr Podolec

Editor‑in‑Chief

JRCD: MNiSzW — List of Scientific Journals —

It is our great pleasure to inform that Journal of Rare Cardiovascular Diseases has been published on the List of Scientific Journals of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (MNiSzW) with the rate of 8 points.

!!!Happy New Year 2016!!!

Editorial Team of the Journal of Rare Cardiovascular Diseases, would like to wish all Authors, Reviewers and Readers, Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year 2016!!

Thank you very much for being with us during this year 2015! A year of growth and improvement.

In July 2015, the Journal has been added to the IC Journal Master List 2014 receiving Index Copernicus Value of 68.70 points.

We are awaiting the results of the Polish Scholarly Bibliography and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education evaluation process, which is expected to be announced by the end of December.

We are getting ready to apply for further bibliographic databases and indexes including Pubmed.

All our issues are available on the www.jrcd.eu on entirely open-access fashion.

We invite all Authors to submit their papers.

We hope to continue partnership with our Reviewers.

Yours sincerely

Editorial Team  of the Journal of Rare Cardiovascular Diseases

JRCD: Evaluation by the Index Copernicus International 2015

Dear Readers,

It is my great pleasure to inform that Journal of Rare Cardiovascular Diseases successfully underwent  evaluation  by the Index Copernicus International and has been added to the IC Journal Master List 2014 receiving Index Copernicus Value of 68.70 points. Let me thank all authors, reviewers, members
of editorial board, editors and publisher, who helped us to achieve this goal. I truly believe that this
success will invite more authors to submit their works for the Journal and encourage reviewers to commit their time to refine the quality of published manuscripts. I am convinced, that this first step
will help us to move further.

Thanks to reviewers: 2014

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board are thankful to the following colleagues for their tremendous but significant assistance in reviewing articles submitted to the journal in 2014.

• Zofia Bilińska (Poland)
• Piotr Błaszczak (Poland)
• Michał Buczyński (Poland)
• Anton Chrustowicz (Poland)
• Adam Chybiło (Poland)
• Pawel Dimitrow (Poland)
• Egle Ereminiene (Lithuania)
• Andrzej Gackowski (Poland)
• Piotr Hoffman (Poland)
• Małgorzata Jasiewicz (Poland)
• Takahide Kodama (Japan)
• Jacek Kołcz (Germany)
• Grzegorz Kopeć (Poland)
• Joanna Krzystalik-Łodzińska (Poland)
• Piotr Kukla (Poland)
• Andrzej Kułach (Poland)
• Marcin Kuniewicz (Poland)
• Katarzyna Mizia-Stec (Poland)
• Rasa Ordiene (Lihuania)
• Nelia Oryshchyn (Ukraine)
• Jacek Pająk (Poland)
• Ernest Pauwels (Netherland)
• Artur Pietrucha (Poland)
• Wojciech Płazak (Poland)
• Alberto Pozzoli (Italy)
• Agnieszka Skierska (Poland)
• Jakub Stępniewski (Poland)
• Elżbieta Suchoń (Poland)
• Lesław Szydłowski (Poland)
• Joanna Śliwka (Poland)
• Lidia Tomkiewicz-Pająk (Poland)
• Olga Trojnarska (Poland)

Piotr Podolec

Editor‑in‑Chief

Thanks to reviewers: 2013

The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board are thankful to the following colleagues for their irreplaceable and profound effort in evaluating articles submitted to the journal in 2013.

• Ruta Ablonskyte – Dudonienee (Lithuania)
• Ruta Arbaciauskaite (Lithuania)
• Jacek Bednarek (Poland)
• Łukasz Chrzanowski (Poland)
• Ken Curry (England)
• Egle Ereminiene (Lithuania)
• Wojciech Gilowski (Poland)
• Yuriy Ivaniv (Ukraine)
• Małgorzata Jasiewicz (Poland)
• Piotr Kukla (Poland)
• Jacek Lelakowski (Poland)
• Piotr Liszniański (Poland)
• Aurimas Mikalauskas (Lithuania)
• Skaidrius Miliauskas (Lithuania)
• Tomasz Miszalski-Jamka (Poland)
• Katarzyna Mizia-Stec (Poland)
• Deddo Moertl (Austria)
• Jacek Nowak (Poland)
• Nelia Oryshchyn (Ukraine)
• Jacek Pająk (Poland)
• Carlo Perricone (Italy)
• Artur Pietrucha (Poland)
• Wojciech Płazak (Poland)
• Roman Przybylski (Poland)
• Jolien Roos-Hesselink (Netherland)
• Paweł Rubiś (Poland)
• Karol Sanecki (Poland)
• Jakub Stępniewski (Poland)
• Lesław Szydłowski (Poland)
• Dorota Śliwiak (Poland)
• Maciej Wybraniec (Poland)

Piotr Podolec

Editor‑in‑Chief

JRCD: Brief Communication article

Brief Communication begins with a short abstract of not more than 100 words. Text limit is 1500 words, display item limit of 3 figures and/or tables and 10 references limit. The main intention of this type of publication is to provide opportunities for publishing papers focused on exciting, original and definitive findings especially the ones having the potential of significant and immediate impact on the scientific community. Brief Communications have a structure simillar to those of regular type of article including abstract, introduction, methods, results, conclusions and references. The only difference between regular articles and brief communications is the length of the publication.

To submit the article please go to Online Submissions page.