''EP Europace'' is a

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published by

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that publishes research articles about the study and management of

cardiac arrhythmias Arrhythmias, also known as cardiac arrhythmias, heart arrhythmias, or dysrhythmias, are irregularities in the heartbeat, including when it is too fast or too slow. A resting heart rate that is too fast – above 100 beats per minute in adults ...

cardiac pacing An artificial cardiac pacemaker (or artificial pacemaker, so as not to be confused with the natural cardiac pacemaker) or pacemaker is a medical device that generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to the chambers of the heart eith ...

, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology. It is 1 of 13 official journals of the

European Society of Cardiology The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is an independent non-profit, non-governmental professional association that works to advance the prevention, diagnosis and management of diseases of the heart and blood vessels, and improve scientific un ...

and is the official journal of the society's working groups on Cardiac Cellular Electrophysiology and e-Cardiology and of the European Heart Rhythm Association.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the following database: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 5.231 and is ranked 25th out of 128 journals in the Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems category.

History

Europace was founded in 1999, with Richard Sutton as the founding Editor-in-chief. In 2007, A. John Camm became Editor-in-chief, who was succeeded by Gerhardt Hindricks in 2018.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://europace.oxfordjournals.org/ Cardiology journals Monthly journals English-language journals Cambridge University Press academic journals Academic journals established in 1999 Academic journals associated with international learned and professional societies of Europe