Journal profile · Clinical Neurology
Cerebrovascular Diseases
ISSN 1015-9770 · eISSN 1421-9786 · S. Karger AG · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1991
Cerebrovascular Diseases: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.81; hybrid open access; median 92 days to acceptance (108 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 122 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Cerebrovascular Diseases is published by S. Karger AG and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Acute Ischemic Stroke Management, Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases and Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery, together about 46.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Neurology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Cerebrovascular Diseases is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles of broad interest to health professionals and researchers of stroke medicine and the study of cerebrovascular disease. The journal has a global perspective and considers articles covering prevention, diagnosis, management, rehabilitation, and related fields of molecular genetics, vascular biology, pathophysiology, epidemiology, and health systems science. The editors encourage submissions of original research, reviews, and commentary articles that focus on knowledge advance and inform clinical practice and health policy.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Clinical Neurology
Editor-in-chief Craig S. AndersonPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Acute Ischemic Stroke ManagementMedicine23.9%
- Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery DiseasesMedicine15.3%
- Stroke Rehabilitation and RecoveryMedicine7.1%
- Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ResearchMedicine6.9%
- Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and ComplicationsMedicine6.2%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance4.1%
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine3.8%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Peripheral Vascular Disease | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Peripheral Vascular Disease | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Peripheral Vascular Disease | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.81LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2024
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2024
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 4LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2024
- 4Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.65LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.84LetPub ·
- h-index
- 96LetPub ·
- h-index
- 145OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,959OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.72OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 15.26%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 104LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 2,025Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,578 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 65 | 29 | 15 |
| 2025 | 122 | 52 | 146 |
| 2024 | 112 | 41 | 353 |
| 2023 | 123 | 44 | 524 |
| 2022 | 113 | 55 | 932 |
| 2021 | 152 | 75 | 1,911 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
92 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 57 days – 136 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 27 days (108 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 125 days
- Sample
- 108 articles with submission and acceptance dates (302 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 1 monthLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2024
- 19.6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2024
- 18 daysPublisher website ·
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted5
- commentaryCommentaryLength not stated
- editorialEditorialLength not stated
- meta-analysisMeta-AnalysisLength not stated
- protocolProtocols provide an outline of planned study methodology and research processes, covering study protocols and statistical analysis plans for proposed and or on…Length not stated
- systematic reviewSystematic ReviewLength not stated
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- S. Karger AG
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1991
- ISSN
- 1015-9770
- Electronic ISSN
- 1421-9786
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 55, Issue 5 (July 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Cerebrovascular Diseases
What CAS zone is Cerebrovascular Diseases in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Cerebrovascular Diseases is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Clinical Neurology / Peripheral Vascular Disease. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Cerebrovascular Diseases?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.81; CiteScore 4, h-index 145.
How long does peer review take at Cerebrovascular Diseases?
Based on the dates recorded on 108 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 92 days (interquartile range 57–136 days); authors report an average review time of about 1 month; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 19.6% (2024). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Which databases index Cerebrovascular Diseases?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Cerebrovascular Diseases is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Cerebrovascular Diseases open access, and what is the APC?
Cerebrovascular Diseases is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-24). Last updated: .