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Pakistan Heart Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3), WoS ESCI. Published by Pakistan Cardiac Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0048-2706Verify ISSN ↗2227-9199Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pakistan Cardiac Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 378 / 409 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Pakistan Heart Journal is Q4 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 378 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Pakistan Heart Journal 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 0.3, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 7th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Pakistan Heart Journal is published by Pakistan Cardiac Society. Its print ISSN is 0048-2706 and its online ISSN is 2227-9199.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Pakistan Heart Journal has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #368 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Pakistan Heart Journal published 119 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 135. 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 74 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Pakistan (77.5%), Egypt (8.6%) and Indonesia (4.1%). 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. 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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