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Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Medcom Limited.
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ISSN 1027-7811Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Medcom Limited
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 370 / 409 | 9th | 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 2022–present (also 2012–2020), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology is Q4 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 370 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Hong Kong College of 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 9th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.121, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology is published by Medcom Limited. Its ISSN is 1027-7811.
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.
Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology has an h-index of 5 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #373 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 74. 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 80 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Hong Kong SAR China (44.4%), China (26.5%) and Indonesia (8.8%).
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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