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Basic Research in Cardiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0300-8428Verify ISSN ↗1435-1803Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 20 / 409 | 95th | Q1 |
| Physiology | 12 / 196 | 94th | Q1 |
| Physiology (medical) | 8 / 117 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.5.
Basic Research in Cardiology is Q1 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 20 of 409), Q1 in Physiology (rank 12 of 196) and Q1 in Physiology (medical) (rank 8 of 117), by CiteScore 2025.
Basic Research in Cardiology 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 13.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.891, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 118.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,990 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.
Basic Research in Cardiology is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0300-8428 and its online ISSN is 1435-1803.
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.
Basic Research in Cardiology has an h-index of 136 and a 2-year mean of 9.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Basic Research in Cardiology published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 73. 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 Germany (23.2%), China (21.4%) and United States (17.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 11 retracted papers are recorded (2.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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