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Cardiology Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Via Medica.
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ISSN 1897-5593Verify ISSN ↗1898-018XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Via Medica
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 127 / 409 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Cardiology Journal is Q2 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 127 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Cardiology Journal 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.676, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$900 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.
Cardiology Journal is published by Via Medica. Its print ISSN is 1897-5593 and its online ISSN is 1898-018X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Cardiology Journal has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #237 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Cardiology Journal published 116 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 190. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Poland (50.7%), China (12.5%) and United States (7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
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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