European Heart Journal-Acute Cardiovascular Care

European Heart Journal-Acute Cardiovascular Care is published by SAGE Publications Ltd and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Acute Myocardial Infarction Research, Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices and Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation, together about 36.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The European Heart Journal – Acute Cardiovascular Care (EHJ-ACVC) is an official, international, peer-reviewed journal of the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care (ACVC), an association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). The Journal publishes high-quality material, both clinical and scientific, on all aspects of acute cardiac care such as acute coronary syndromes, cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, cardiac arrhythmias, and acute heart failure. The Journal offers a unique integrative approach combining the expertise of the different subspecialties of cardiology, emergency, and intensive care medicine in the management of patients with acute cardiovascular syndromes. Issues published per year: 12 Articles available: online only Access: subscription journal with optional open access Why Publish with EHJ-ACVC? Discover the top 5 reasons to submit your manuscript to the Journal. Journal metrics Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 7.8 2025 5 Year Impact Factor 5.2 Critical Care Medicine (Rank by Impact Factor) 7/66 2025 Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) 1.33 Critical Care Medicine (Rank by Journal Citation Indicator) 11/66 2025 Cited Half-Life 4.6 years 2025 Immediacy Index 2.4 2025 Eigenfactor Score 0.00634 2025 Article Influence Score 1.706 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 7.6 Critical Care And Intensive Care Medicine (Rank by CiteScore) 16/122 Cardiology And Cardiovascular Medicine (Rank by CiteScore) 59/409 2025 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 1.546 About metrics Disclaimer Unless otherwise expressly indicated, statements of fact and opinion in the articles in European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care are those of the respective authors and contributors only and not of the Journal, the European Society of Cardiology, or Oxford University Press (OUP). Neither OUP, the European Society of Cardiology, nor the Journal make any representation, express or implied, in respect of the accuracy of the material in the Journal and have no legal responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that may be made. Readers must make their own evaluation as to the appropriateness or otherwise of the information included.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Medicine-General Medicine

Editor-in-chief Pascal VranckxPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 3%); most named United States 8, Belgium 8, Italy 7, Spain 7, Denmark 5 (74 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

7.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

5.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

7.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

7.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.6LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.55LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

73OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

758OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.88OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

15.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

22.77%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

71LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Country or region

United Kingdom

Language

English

ISSN

2048-8726

Electronic ISSN

2048-8734

Latest issue on the website

Volume 15, Issue 8 (August 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website