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Cardiology (Switzerland) is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 0008-6312Verify ISSN ↗1421-9751Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 192 / 409 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 157 / 278 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1937–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Cardiology (Switzerland) is Q2 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 192 of 409) and Q3 in Pharmacology (medical) (rank 157 of 278), by CiteScore 2025.
Cardiology (Switzerland) 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.576, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 78.
Cardiology (Switzerland) is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 0008-6312 and its online ISSN is 1421-9751.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cardiology (Switzerland) has an h-index of 96 and a 2-year mean of 1.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #188 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Cardiology (Switzerland) published 115 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 142. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (31%), United States (11.4%) and Japan (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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