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Heart Lung and Circulation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 1443-9506Verify ISSN ↗1444-2892Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,260 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 169 / 409 | 58th | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 76 / 165 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.7.
Heart Lung and Circulation is Q2 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 169 of 409) and Q2 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 76 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Heart Lung and Circulation 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 3.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.649, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 67.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,260 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.
Heart Lung and Circulation is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1443-9506 and its online ISSN is 1444-2892.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Heart Lung and Circulation has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #340 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Heart Lung and Circulation published 1,507 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 1,699. 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Australia (68.3%), New Zealand (7.7%) and United States (5.6%). 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. 46 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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.
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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