Hypertension (journal)

Hypertension is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal^[1] that was established in 1979. It is published on behalf of the American Heart Association by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The editor-in-chief is Rhian M. Touyz. The journal publishes original manuscripts, invited review summaries, invited case-based reviews, recent study highlights, invited brief commentaries, scientific or technical tutorials, letters to the editor, and novel findings of unusual interest.^[2] It covers all aspects of research on hypertension, including pathophysiology, blood pressure regulation, clinical treatment, and prevention.

Hypertension

Discipline	Hypertension
Language	English
Edited by	Rhian M. Touyz
Publication details
History	1979-present
Publisher	Lippincott Williams & Wilkins on behalf of the American Heart Association
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid, delayed, after 12 months
Impact factor	10.190 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Hypertension
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	HPRTDN
ISSN	0194-911X (print) 1524-4563 (web)
LCCN	80645000
OCLC no.	4798824
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts^[3]
• BIOSIS Previews^[4]
• CAB Abstracts^[5]
• Chemical Abstracts Service^[6]
• CINAHL^[7]
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine^[4]
• Current Contents/Life Sciences^[4]
• Embase^[8]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[9]
• PASCAL^[10]
• Science Citation Index^[4]
• Scopus^[11]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 10.190.^[12]