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Contemporary Cardiology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Springer International Publishing.
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ISSN 2196-8969Verify ISSN ↗2196-8977Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 346 / 409 | 15th | Q4 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 217 / 250 | 13th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2026 (also 2019–2024, 2016–2017, 2005–2014), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Contemporary Cardiology is Q4 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 346 of 409) and Q4 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 217 of 250), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Cardiology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Contemporary Cardiology is published by Springer International Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2196-8969 and its online ISSN is 2196-8977.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Contemporary Cardiology has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #376 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Contemporary Cardiology published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 163. 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.
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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