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JAMA Cardiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 22.4), WoS SCIE. Published by American Medical Association.
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ISSN 2380-6583Verify ISSN ↗2380-6591Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Medical Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 9 / 409 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 22.4.
JAMA Cardiology is Q1 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 9 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
JAMA Cardiology 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 22.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 6.028, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 142.
JAMA Cardiology is published by American Medical Association. Its print ISSN is 2380-6583 and its online ISSN is 2380-6591.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
JAMA Cardiology has an h-index of 169 and a 2-year mean of 8.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 22.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
JAMA Cardiology published 276 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 414. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (33.9%), China (10.6%) and United Kingdom (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 (0.6 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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