About the Journal

Aims and Scope

The Journal of Transcatheter Valve Therapies (JTVT) is an Open Access journal that aims to provide and share the latest information in transcatheter valve therapies and related fields. The journal publishes a range of peer-reviewed article types that explore comprehensive and specific aspects of this emerging field, as well as important reviews and methods. Supported by the Japan Transcatheter Valve Therapies society and published continuously online, the journal has a global audience of cardiac specialists that use the journal’s content to remain informed and up-to-date and therefore improve patient outcomes.

Welcome essay

Journal of Transcatheter Valve Therapies was first established in 2019 as an official journal of Japan Transcatheter Valve Therapies (JTVT).

This journal is accepting the article in the field of transcatheter treatment of heart valve disease like transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), transcatheter mitral and tricuspid edge-to-edge repair (TEER), and other therapeutics in the format of Original articles, Review articles, Case reports, How to Do It, Imaging Flashlight, Letters to the Editor.

Our aim is to provide visibility to all researchers in this field and to offer them the opportunities to publish their articles, contributing to the scientific development.

To ensure that the content of Journal of Transcatheter Valve Therapies is of the highest possible quality and interest to our readers, we are continually striving to improve the quality of the journal. We are also confident that your contribution is essential to enhance the quality and reputation of the journal. We hope that you will submit your best research to the journal and contribute to the science in this field for better clinical outcomes for our patients.

Editor-in-Chief
Kentaro Hayashida, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, FJCS
Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine

Copyright, Open Access License Policy

JTVT is fully Open Access and uses a Creative Commons (CC) license, which allow users to use and reuse material published in the journal, in defined ways, without charge or the need to ask prior permission from the publisher or author.

Copyright and licensing

Authors are required to assign all copyrights in the work to the Society, who then publish the work under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International). This license allows users to share unmodified articles, non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given.

Some funding bodies require articles funded by them to be published under a specific Creative Commons license. Before submitting your work to the journal, check with the relevant funding bodies to ensure that you comply with any mandates.

Editorial and peer review process

The journal uses single-blind peer review. When a manuscript is submitted to the journal, it is assigned to the Editor-in-Chief, who performs initial screening. Manuscripts that do not fit the journal’s scope or are not deemed suitable for publication are rejected without review. The remaining manuscripts are assigned to an Associate Editor who assigns two reviewers to assess each manuscript. Reviewers are selected based on their expertise, reputation and previous experience as peer reviewers.

Upon receipt of the two reviewers’ reports, the Associate Editor makes recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief who makes the first decision on the manuscript. Authors who are invited to revise their manuscript must do so by the deadline set out in the decision letter. Revised manuscripts submitted after this deadline may be treated as new submissions. On revision, authors should respond to all comments, and indicate the location of modified text by page number and line number. The modified sections of the text should be highlighted by underlining or using a colored font.

The Associate Editor may send revised manuscripts to peer reviewers for their feedback or may use his or her own judgement to assess how closely the authors have followed the Editor’s and the reviewers’ comments on the original manuscript.

The Editor then makes a recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief on the manuscript’s suitability for publication. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for making the final decision on each manuscript.

The members of the Editorial Committee act in advisory roles, providing feedback as reviewers and making suggestions to improve the journal. In cases where the Editor-in-Chief is an author on a manuscript submitted to the journal, a member of the Editorial Committee is responsible for making the final decision on the manuscript’s suitability for publication in the journal.

Scientific and publication ethics

JTVT has a range of journal policies on authorship, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, experimentation, image integrity, unoriginal material, and more, which are detailed in the Instructions to Authors . The journal follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines to manage cases of potential ethical concern.

Journal data

  • Journal Title: Journal of Transcatheter Valve Therapies (JTVT)
  • Publisher: Japan Transcatheter Valve Therapies (Society)https://jtvt.or.jp/ (Only available in Japanese)
  • Online ISSN: 2434-4532
  • Frequency of Publication: One issue per year
  • The inaugural issue was published on April 2019
  • Published online at J-STAGE
  • Turnaround times:Median submission to first decision: 33 daysMedian acceptance to publication: 30 days