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Vascular Specialist International is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Korean Society for Vascular Surgery.
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ISSN 2288-7970Verify ISSN ↗2288-7989Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society for Vascular Surgery
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 361 / 597 | 39th | Q3 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 299 / 409 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Vascular Specialist International is Q3 in Surgery (rank 361 of 597) and Q3 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 299 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Vascular Specialist International 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.358, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Vascular Specialist International is published by Korean Society for Vascular Surgery. Its print ISSN is 2288-7970 and its online ISSN is 2288-7989.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Vascular Specialist International has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 1.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #185 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Vascular Specialist International published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 51. 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 90 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (35.6%), Greece (10.6%) and India (8.9%).
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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