Created in 2021, the ABC Family consists of a set of journals in the areas of cardiovascular sciences that currently covers the Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (Brazilian Archives of Cardiology – ABC Cardiol), International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences (IJCS), ABC Heart Failure & Cardiomyopathy (ABC HF) anda ABC Imagem Cardiovascular, with the aim of becoming the main reference in publication in Latin America.

With 20 years of existence, the Department of Heart Failure (in portuguese: Departamento de Insuficiência Cardíaca – DEIC) launches in 2021 its journal: ABC Heart Failure & Cardiomyopathy. The journal aims to foster and disseminate national and international research in the fields of heart failure and cardiomyopathies, publishing articles in both Portuguese and English. All scientific contributions are peer-reviewed and reviewed by editorial board members selected among the most reputable researchers in Brazil and abroad. The manuscripts are reviewed according to their relevance and originality, scientific accuracy and level of importance for the advancement of science.

This journal follows the Open Access model, allowing unrestricted virtual access (including financial access) to all scientific texts published by the journal.

Open Access is the condition in which the copyright holder of an academic work grants usage rights to third parties through an open license (Creative Commons Attribution, CC-BY), allowing immediate free access to the work and authorizing any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

The term open science refers to a model of scientific practice aligned with digital evolution, which advocates for making information available in networks, in contrast to the closed research model of traditional laboratories.

Open science practices include the publication of research data, the acceleration of editorial and communication processes through continuous article publication and the adoption of preprints, the maximization of transparency in peer review and communication workflows, and the pursuit of more comprehensive systems for evaluating articles and journals.

Our editorial policy aligns with the research communication practices of the Open Science model, and ABC HF follows the Gold Open Science model.

The corresponding author, or the first author of the article, must declare their compliance with Open Science in the Mandatory Publication Form, in accordance with the Open Science Compliance Form.

ABC HF follows ethical and accountability standards in scientific communication as recommended by national and international organizations, including the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Council of Science Editors (CSE), Equator Network, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE), and the SciELO Guide for Good Practices to Strengthen Ethics in Scientific Publication.

Refer to the Ethics Policy published on the journal’s website.

To disseminate the content of scientific research in the areas of heart failure and cardiomyopathies both nationally and internationally and to promote scientific debate in this field by publishing original articles, reviews, viewpoints, editorials, and letters to the editor, among others.

This journal follows the standards defined by the Digital Preservation Policy of the SciELO Program.

Journal title: ABC Heart Failure & Cardiomyopathy

Abbreviated title: ABC Heart Fail Cardiomyop

Published by: Sociedade Brazileira de Cardiologia (Brazilian Society of Cardiology)

Publication frequency: Annual (Single volume)

Publication model: Continuous publication

Year of establishment: 2021

ABC HF disseminates its content through the following channels:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sbc.cardiol/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sbc.cardiol/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/CardiolBr

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cardiol/

Editorial Team: Scientific Management – Publications Department

E-mail: abcheartfailure@cardiol.br

Phone: (55+21) 3478-2782 / 99386-3961

Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia – Av. Marechal Câmara, 160 / 330 – Centro. Postal Code 20020-907 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil – Phone: (55+21) 3478-2700, e-mail: sbc@cardiol.br, website: https://www.portal.cardiol.br/

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