In order to bring you the best possible user experience, this site uses Javascript. If you are seeing this message, it is likely that the Javascript option in your browser is disabled. For optimal viewing of this site, please ensure that Javascript is enabled for your browser.
Did you know that your browser is out of date? To get the best experience using our website we recommend that you upgrade to a newer version. Learn more.

ESC Heart Failure

Open-access research on all aspects of heart failure and its comorbidities: advancing knowledge about heart failure worldwide


 

ESC Heart Failure is the open access journal of the Heart Failure Association.

The journal improves the understanding, prevention, investigation and treatment of heart failure. Molecular and cellular biology, pathology, physiology, electrophysiology, pharmacology, as well as the clinical, social and population sciences all form part of the discipline that is heart failure.

Submit your paper

Fast Facts

  • Editor-in-Chief: Professor Piotr Ponikowski (PL)
  • Current volume: 11 (year 2025)
  • Issues per volume: 6
  • Impact Factor 2023 : 3.2

Editor-in-Chief History

Name Start Date End Date
Professor Stefan D. Anker 01/01/2014 31/08/2022
Professor Magnus Bäck (Interim Editor-in-Chief) 01/09/2022 31/03/2024
Professor Piotr Ponikowski  01/04/2024  

Updates on latest articles

Updates on latest articles

 

Receive the table of contents in your mailbox.

Track topics and authors important to you and receive articles in your mailbox.

For Authors

Before being published, all manuscripts go through double-blind, peer review by experienced international experts.


Most recent articles from ESC HF

21 Oct 2025
Role of NPPB for recovery post ventricular assist device in paediatric dilated cardiomyopathy: Single‐cell multiomics
Author(s): Yosuke Kugo, Takuji Kawamura, Akima Harada, Yuji Tominaga, Kenji Miki, Hidekazu Ishida, Takayoshi Ueno, Shigeru Miyagawa
14 Oct 2025
Haemodynamic effects of istaroxime in SCAI stage B HF‐related cardiogenic shock: Insights from the SEISMiC trial
Author(s): Matteo Pagnesi, Gad Cotter, Beth Davison, Daniel Burkhoff, Alexander Mebazaa, Jan Biegus, Ovidiu Chioncel, Christopher Edwards, Koji Takagi, Gerasimos Filippatos, Agnieszka Tycińska, Maria Novosadova, Gaurav Gulati, Marianela Barros, Maria Luz Diaz, Carlos Guardia, Robert Zymliński, Piotr Gajewski, Piotr Ponikowski, Phillip Simmons, Steven Simonson, Marco Metra
15 Oct 2025
Use of artificial intelligence for detecting left ventricular dysfunction and predicting incident heart failure risk
Author(s): Anna Węgrzyn‐Witek, Monika Przewlocka‐Kosmala, Wojciech Kosmala, Thomas H. Marwick
14 Oct 2025
Prognostic impact of SCAI shock severity classes in AMI‐related cardiogenic shock: A sub‐study of the ECLS‐SHOCK Trial
Author(s): Janine Pöss, Jacob Jentzer, Steffen Desch, Hans‐Josef Feistritzer, Anne Freund, Michelle Roßberg, Christian Jung, Taoufik Ouarrak, Steffen Schneider, Ibrahim Akin, Tienush Rassaf, Tharusan Thevathasan, Uwe Zeymer, Holger Thiele