Creating an impact, not an impression: ESC Heart Failure in its seventh year

We started ESC Heart Failure as the first open access heart failure journal in September 2014, and we would have never guessed that this journal would produce such a great interest in the heart failure community. Indeed, the first ever article to be published in ESC Heart Failure—by this group of authors—already noted that ‘research in acute and chronic heart failure is busier than ever worldwide and demands more publishing space’.1 Obviously,...