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Global Heart is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Ubiquity Press.
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ISSN 2211-8160Verify ISSN ↗2211-8179Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and Home Care | 1 / 40 | 98th | Q1 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 85 / 409 | 79th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 38 / 173 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Global Heart is Q1 in Community and Home Care (rank 1 of 40), Q1 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 85 of 409) and Q1 in Epidemiology (rank 38 of 173), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Heart 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.325, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 60.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,300 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.
Global Heart is published by Ubiquity Press. Its print ISSN is 2211-8160 and its online ISSN is 2211-8179.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Global Heart has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 7.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 39 Scopus journals in Community and Home Care.
Global Heart published 115 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 549. 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 China (19.6%), United States (13.7%) and United Kingdom (7.4%).
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 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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