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American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Adis.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1175-3277Verify ISSN ↗1179-187XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Adis
Cost to publish: About US$4,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 93 / 409 | 77th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 65 / 278 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs is Q1 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 93 of 409) and Q1 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 65 of 278), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.952, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,790 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs is published by Adis. Its print ISSN is 1175-3277 and its online ISSN is 1179-187X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs has an h-index of 74 and a 2-year mean of 3.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 91. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.2%), China (16.3%) and Greece (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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