Clear, author-friendly licensing that maximizes the reach and clinical impact of cardiovascular research.
Open Access Under Creative Commons
JHC publishes all articles under Creative Commons licensing, ensuring global accessibility while protecting author attribution.
Our licensing framework supports open science principles and enables broad educational and clinical use of published cardiovascular research.
All articles published in the Journal of Hypertension and Cardiology are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This license enables maximum dissemination of cardiovascular research while ensuring authors receive proper credit for their contributions to the field.
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Anyone may copy, redistribute, and share the material in any medium or format, including for clinical education and cardiology training.
Adapt and Build
Others may remix, transform, and build upon your work for any purpose, as long as they credit the original author and source appropriately.
No Additional Restrictions
No legal terms or technological measures may restrict others from doing anything the license permits under the creative commons framework.
Attribution Required
Users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made to the original published work.
Under our open access model, authors retain copyright ownership of their published work. JHC receives a non-exclusive license to publish and distribute the article. Authors may freely share, reuse, and build upon their own cardiovascular research without seeking additional permission from the journal for educational or research purposes.
What this means for you: You maintain full ownership of your research while enabling the widest possible dissemination. Share your published article on personal websites, institutional repositories, or professional networks with confidence.
Users reusing CC BY content must provide appropriate credit including author names, article title, journal name, and DOI link. Modifications should be noted, and license terms must not restrict others from exercising their rights under the creative commons framework for legitimate clinical and educational purposes.
If your submission includes content from other sources, such as cardiac imaging, ECG traces, or data visualizations, you must obtain permission from the original copyright holder before submission. Provide documentation of permissions during manuscript preparation. Content not covered by the CC BY license must be clearly identified.
- Obtain written permission for all third-party content before submission
- Include permission documentation with your manuscript submission
- Clearly credit original sources in figure legends and captions
- Identify any content excluded from the open access license
Our CC BY 4.0 licensing meets requirements of major research funders mandating open access publication. Authors can demonstrate compliance by pointing to license terms attached to their published articles. JHC provides documentation support for grant reporting and compliance verification when needed by funding agencies.
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Contact UsPublic Access and Funder Compliance
Some authors are required by their funders to make their research publicly available. Under the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy, Author Accepted Manuscripts accepted for publication on or after July 1, 2025, must be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance and made publicly available without embargo on the official date of publication.
What JHC provides: JHC publishes the Version of Record under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. The journal also permits authors to deposit their Author Accepted Manuscript in funder-designated repositories. Upon acceptance, we confirm the accepted manuscript version and record the funder and grant information supplied by the authors.
Author responsibility: JHC does not currently deposit manuscripts in PubMed Central on behalf of authors. Authors are responsible for determining which funder requirements apply, initiating the appropriate repository submission and completing any required NIHMS approval steps.
Eligibility and successful processing through PubMed Central or NIHMS are determined according to the relevant funder and NIH/NLM requirements.
Important: The deposit of an individual article in PubMed Central may result in that article appearing in PubMed. It does not mean that JHC is indexed in MEDLINE, included in the PMC Journal List or that all JHC articles are available through PubMed. The journal's current coverage is listed on the Indexing page.
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