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Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Edizioni Minerva Medica.
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ISSN 0021-9509Verify ISSN ↗1827-191XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edizioni Minerva Medica
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 238 / 597 | 60th | Q2 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 215 / 409 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1960–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 238 of 597) and Q3 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 215 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.483, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 61.
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery is published by Edizioni Minerva Medica. Its print ISSN is 0021-9509 and its online ISSN is 1827-191X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #237 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 145. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Italy (24.8%), Germany (16.4%) and United States (14.4%).
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 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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