Journal profile · Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Clinical Cardiology
ISSN 0160-9289 · eISSN 1932-8737 · Wiley-Blackwell · UNITED STATES · Monthly · Founded 1978
Clinical Cardiology: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.81; fully open access; APC about USD 3,810; median 144 days to acceptance (95 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 229 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Clinical Cardiology is published by Wiley-Blackwell and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors and Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, together about 25.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Clinical Cardiology is a journal for cardiologists caring for adult patients with heart disease. The papers that the journal aims to publish are aligned with the needs of this readership. Clinical Cardiology does not publish papers related to pediatric populations, cardiac surgery, intensive care, hypertension, vascular disease, basic science, or translational medicine, unless ready for clinical implementation. The journal will not consider highly technical or specialised topics that are of little interest to the general cardiologist. Clinical Cardiology provides a fully Gold Open Access forum for the publication of original clinical research, as well as brief reviews of diagnostic and therapeutic issues in cardiovascular medicine and cardiovascular surgery.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Editor-in-chief A. JohnPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 10%); most named United States 10, Mainland China 2, United Kingdom 2, Brazil 2, India 1 (21 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsMedicine10.1%
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsMedicine7.8%
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmiasMedicine7.8%
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and OutcomesMedicine7.3%
- Acute Myocardial Infarction ResearchMedicine7.3%
- Cardiac Arrhythmias and TreatmentsMedicine7.3%
- Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studiesMedicine5.7%
- Coronary Interventions and DiagnosticsMedicine4.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 3 |
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 | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPMCEmbaseCAB AbstractsCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest, Index Medicus, ISI BioMed, Index Internacional de Cardiologia, Excerpta Medica
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- 2.81LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.88LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.92LetPub ·
- h-index
- 67LetPub ·
- h-index
- 113OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3,814OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.3OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 121LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 164Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 922,756Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 10,378 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 230 | 230 | 69 |
| 2025 | 229 | 229 | 478 |
| 2024 | 210 | 210 | 993 |
| 2023 | 252 | 252 | 2,041 |
| 2022 | 216 | 216 | 2,181 |
| 2021 | 228 | 228 | 2,794 |
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 Crossref · to
144 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 54 days – 239 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 10 days (96 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 151 days
- Sample
- 95 articles with submission and acceptance dates (446 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)
- 4–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 16%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 27 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 85 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher 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
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,810 / EUR 3,250 / GBP 2,860 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Reference style
- Author–date
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Not considered
- pediatric populations; cardiac surgery; intensive care; hypertension; vascular disease; basic science; translational medicine
Article types accepted2, with length limits
- clinical articlesClinical Articles: A report of research work or analyses conducted by the author(s) of the manuscript. About 2,500–4,000 words and 25–50 references maximum (abo…Length not stated
- editorialonline-only as supporting data. Invited Editorial (by invitation only): No more than 1,500 words and 25 references maximum (no abstract; about 4 pages totalmain text ≤ 1,500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- Data availability 11. Data Sharing Policy: Data Sharing Expected
Data sharing expected after acceptance Model summary
The journal expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement to describe the availability or the absence of shared data. When data have been shared, authors are required to include in their data availability statement a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 7. Publication Ethics
This journal uses iThenticate's CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley's Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley's Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright 3. Copyright
All articles are published under a Creative Commons license. With Creative Commons licenses, the author retains copyright and the public is allowed to reuse the content. The author grants Wiley a license to publish the article and identify as the original publisher. Please visit the OA Licensing and Copyright page to learn more.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Journal, Health Science Reports
Creative Commons license; author retains copyright Model summary
This journal works together with Wiley’s Open Access Journal, Health Science Reports, and other Wiley journals, to enable rapid publication of good quality research that is unable to be accepted for publication by our journal. Authors will be offered the option of having the paper, along with any related peer reviews, automatically transferred for consideration by the Editor of Health Science Repo…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Single-blind peer review Model summary
The Journal uses a single-blind peer review model, meaning that the author is not aware of the reviewer’s identities, but the reviewers are aware of the author’s names.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
iThenticate CrossCheck plagiarism detection Model summary
This journal uses iThenticate's CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1978
- ISSN
- 0160-9289
- Electronic ISSN
- 1932-8737
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Clinical Cardiology
What CAS zone is Clinical Cardiology in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Clinical Cardiology is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Clinical Cardiology?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.81; CiteScore 5, h-index 113.
How long does peer review take at Clinical Cardiology?
Based on the dates recorded on 95 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 144 days (interquartile range 54–239 days); authors report an average review time of 4–8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 16% (2025). 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Clinical Cardiology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Reference style: Author–date; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Clinical Cardiology based?
Of the 21 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 10%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (10), Mainland China (2) and United Kingdom (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Clinical Cardiology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Clinical Cardiology is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PMC, Embase, CAB Abstracts and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Clinical Cardiology open access, and what is the APC?
Clinical Cardiology is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,810.
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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .