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Creative Cardiology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). Published by Bakoulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery.
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ISSN 1997-3187Verify ISSN ↗2410-9169Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bakoulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 467 / 597 | 21st | Q4 |
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 306 / 361 | 15th | Q4 |
| Internal Medicine | 152 / 179 | 15th | Q4 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 349 / 409 | 14th | 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 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Creative Cardiology is Q4 in Surgery (rank 467 of 597), Q4 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 306 of 361) and Q4 in Internal Medicine (rank 152 of 179), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Creative 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, 21st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.195, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Creative Cardiology is published by Bakoulev National Medical Research Center for Cardiovascular Surgery. Its print ISSN is 1997-3187 and its online ISSN is 2410-9169.
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.
Creative Cardiology has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #489 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Creative Cardiology published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 63. 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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