Journal profile · Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES
ISSN 0742-2822 · eISSN 1540-8175 · Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd · UNITED STATES · Monthly · Founded 1984
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.75; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,700; median 48 days to acceptance (98 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 326 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd 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 Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, together about 37.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Echocardiography: A Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound and Allied Techniques is the official publication of the International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound. Widely recognized for its comprehensive peer-reviewed articles, case studies, original research, and reviews by international authors. Echocardiography keeps its readership of echocardiographers, ultrasound specialists, and cardiologists well informed of the latest developments in the field.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Editor-in-chief Marijana TadicPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 1%); most named United States 23, Germany 16, Italy 10, United Kingdom 5, Türkiye 4 (80 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsMedicine17.4%
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine11.7%
- Cardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsMedicine8.5%
- Congenital Heart Disease StudiesMedicine7.1%
- Cardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairMedicine6.8%
- Pulmonary Hypertension Research and TreatmentsMedicine4.8%
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine4.6%
- Cardiac tumors and thrombiMedicine3.7%
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 | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedINSPECEmbaseCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, Index Medicus
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
- 1.75LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.36LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.58LetPub ·
- h-index
- 57LetPub ·
- h-index
- 88OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,586OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.36OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 26.75%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 172LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 298Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 257,216Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 8,938 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 271 | 143 | 53 |
| 2025 | 326 | 165 | 383 |
| 2024 | 305 | 168 | 793 |
| 2023 | 236 | 112 | 618 |
| 2022 | 238 | 48 | 1,039 |
| 2021 | 314 | 75 | 1,682 |
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
48 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 26 days – 67 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (98 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 63 days
- Sample
- 98 articles with submission and acceptance dates (664 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)
- 3–6 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 33%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 33%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 51 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 15 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.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,700 / EUR 3,070 / GBP 2,450 | — | — |
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)
What to prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≤ 7
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Article types accepted13, with length limits
- case imageEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- case reportEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- commentaryEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…main text ≤ 1,500 words
- letter to the editorEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- meta-analysisEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- opinionEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- original researchEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- perspectiveEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- research articleEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- reviewEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- review articleEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
- study designA Study Design is article that describes the rationale and study design of a major clinical trial or a prospective registry or population-based study. It must i…Length not stated
- technical noteEchocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging now offers these article types: Research Article Review Article Practice Technical Note Opin…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access
- Authorship 8. Authorship Change Process
Graphical abstract required for original article, review article, case report, case image, practice and technical note. Model summary
In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, Echocardiography: A Journal of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must ag…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest 11. Disclosure Statement
All authors must disclose any affiliations that they consider to be relevant and important with any organization that to any author's knowledge has a direct interest, particularly a financial interest, in the subject matter or materials discussed. Please see the Disclosure Statement. Such affiliations include, but are not limited to, employment by an industrial concern, ownership of stock, members…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability 13. Data Sharing
Data sharing expected in public repository; data availability statement required. Model summary
Echocardiography 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…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright 7. Copyright Licenses
Accepted articles cannot be published until the publisher has received the appropriate signed license agreement. If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author will receive an email prompting them to log into Wiley's Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access 9. Open Access
If the Open Access option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA): Creative Commons Attribution License OAA Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit th…
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 Publishing Ltd
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1984
- ISSN
- 0742-2822
- Electronic ISSN
- 1540-8175
- Society / sponsor
- International Society of Cardiovascular Ultrasound
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 43, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES
What CAS zone is ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems. 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 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.75; CiteScore 2, h-index 88.
How long does peer review take at ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES?
Based on the dates recorded on 98 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 48 days (interquartile range 26–67 days); authors report an average review time of 3–6 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 33% (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 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≤ 7; 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 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES based?
Of the 80 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 1%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (23), Germany (16) and Italy (10). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, INSPEC, Embase, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES open access, and what is the APC?
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY-A JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR ULTRASOUND AND ALLIED TECHNIQUES is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,700.
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: .