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Journal of the Saudi Heart Association is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Saudi Heart Association.
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ISSN 1016-7315Verify ISSN ↗2212-5043Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Saudi Heart Association
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 284 / 409 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association is Q3 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 284 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 30th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.316, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association is published by Saudi Heart Association. Its print ISSN is 1016-7315 and its online ISSN is 2212-5043.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #291 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Journal of the Saudi Heart Association published 56 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 92. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (39.2%), Egypt (12.9%) and India (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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