Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

Comparison of the papers about the Polar OH1 and about Apple watches

Last Updated on January 5, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

Polar OH1:

  • A paper about the Polar OH1 was published in PLOS ONE, reference device was a g.Nautilus multipurpose device:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0217288

  • Two more papers where published about the Polar OH1 with a Polar H10 as a reference:

Apple watches (papers of the group of Dr. Milind Desai only)

  • A first paper was published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise in August 2017:

https://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/Fulltext/2017/08000/Variable_Accuracy_of_Wearable_Heart_Rate_Monitors.22.aspx

  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise is a journal in the discipline of sports science
  • A second paper was published in Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2019:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6732081/

  • Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy is an open access, peer-reviewed, international English-language journal, publishing articles related to cardiovascular medicine and surgery. It was launched in December 2011 as a quarterly publication and is now published bi-monthly since February 2014.
  • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise is a paper in the discipline of sports science which was founded 1969
  • Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy is a paper in the discipline of cardiovascular medicine and surgery and was founded 2011
  • The topics of these two papers in which among others Apple watches where tested where wearable heart rate monitors and commercially available heart rate monitors in athletes.
  • Why where not both papers of Dr. Milind Desais group published in the same journal? Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise was founded 1969. Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy was founded 2011.

  • Is there a difference in the quality of the different journals these papers where published in?
  • None of these papers where published in Nature and Science, we suppose this is because Nature and Science would not accept all of them.