Journal profile · CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS
European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging
ISSN 2047-2404 · eISSN 2047-2412 · Oxford University Press · ENGLAND
European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging: CAS Zone 1 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 5.93; hybrid open access; APC about USD 5,203; median 64 days to acceptance (45 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 871 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging is published by Oxford University Press and is in Zone 1 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors, Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics and Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, together about 43.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging (EHJ-CVI) is an official, international, peer-reviewed journal of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), an association of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). The Journal aims to publish the highest quality material, both scientific and clinical from all areas of cardiovascular imaging including echocardiography, magnetic resonance, computed tomography, nuclear and invasive imaging. Issues published per year: 12 Articles available: online only from January 2025 Access: subscription journal with optional open access Why Publish with EHJ-CVI? Discover the top 5 reasons to submit your manuscript to the Journal. Journal metrics Citation metrics Clarivate 2025 Impact Factor 6.1 2025 5 Year Impact Factor 6.5 Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging (Rank by Impact Factor) 20/217 Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems (Rank by Impact Factor) 37/237 2025 Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) 1.63 Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging (Rank by Journal Citation Indicator) 15/217 Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems (Rank by Journal Citation Indicator) 29/237 2025 Cited Half-Life 6.2 years 2025 Immediacy Index 2.2 2025 Eigenfactor Score 0.01471 2025 Article Influence Score 2.268 Scopus 2025 CiteScore 10.0 Radiology, Nuclear Medicine And Imaging (Rank by CiteScore) 18/361 Cardiology And Cardiovascular Medicine (Rank by CiteScore) 40/409 2025 Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2.282 About metrics Disclaimer Unless otherwise expressly indicated, statements of fact and opinion in the articles in European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging 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): CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 31, Italy 17, United Kingdom 16, Germany 13, Belgium 11 (153 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsMedicine16.5%
- Cardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsMedicine15.9%
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine11.3%
- Cardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairMedicine4.9%
- Pulmonary Hypertension Research and TreatmentsMedicine4.2%
- Congenital Heart Disease StudiesMedicine3.9%
- Cardiomyopathy and Myosin StudiesMedicine3.4%
- Cardiac tumors and thrombiMedicine3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview 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
- 5.93LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 20Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 6.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 10LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 10Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.06LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.28LetPub ·
- h-index
- 77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 132OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,984OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.49OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.9%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 34.96%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 131LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 9,927 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 806 | 65 | 182 |
| 2025 | 871 | 363 | 1,037 |
| 2024 | 460 | 270 | 1,974 |
| 2023 | 797 | 685 | 3,689 |
| 2022 | 734 | 420 | 4,143 |
| 2021 | 941 | 578 | 6,205 |
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
64 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 28 days – 100 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 23 days (11 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 92 days
- Sample
- 45 articles with submission and acceptance dates (814 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 ·
- 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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | EUR 4,604 | — | — |
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 6
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted3, with length limits
- editorialnd not as a footnote on the title page. Editorials All editorials should be limited to 1500 words (including references, figure legends and tables), with a mmain text ≤ 1,500 words · references ≤ 15
- original articleial refers is stated on the front page. Original articles Original articles should not exceed 5000 words (including references, figure legends and tables) and a…main text ≤ 5,000 words · references ≤ 50
- reviewessed and identify future implications. Reviews should not exceed 5000 words (excluding references, figure legends and tables). Only upmain text ≤ 5,000 words · references ≤ 50
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Self-archiving
- Authorship Authorship
All individuals listed as authors should qualify for authorship and should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. Each author included in the manuscript must meet ALL of the following conditions, as specified in the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME). To qualify as an author, the in…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest
All authors must declare any conflicts of interest. When submitting your manuscript via Editorial Manager, you will be asked whether you have any conflicts of interest. It is the responsibility of the submitting author to ascertain any conflicts of interest from your co-authors and declare these at the point of submission. Any potential conflict of interest that might constitute an embarrassment t…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Availability of Data and Materials
Data Availability Statement required Model summary
Where ethically feasible, EHJ-CVI strongly encourages authors to make all data and software code on which the conclusions of the paper rely available to readers. It is recommended that data presented in the manuscript or additional supplementary files be deposited in a public repository whenever possible. Information on general repositories for all data types and a list of recommended repositories…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement
EHJ-CVI and Oxford University Press are members of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). This journal follows the guidance provided by COPE's Core Practices. The Journal also subscribes to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICJME) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly work in Medical Journals. The Journal expects all parties inv…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licence to publish
It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive licence to the European Society for Cardiology (ESC). This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. In assigning the licence, authors may use their own material in other publications …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Third party content in Open Access papers
If you will be publishing your paper under an Open Access licence but it contains material for which you do not have Open Access re-use permissions, please state this clearly by supplying the following credit line alongside the material: Title of content Author, Original publication, year of original publication, by permission of [rights holder] This image/content is not covered by the terms of th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Policy
Single anonymized peer review Model summary
The Journal operates single anonymized peer review, meaning that the identity of the authors is known to the editors and to the reviewers, but that the reviewers’ identities are known only to the editors and are hidden from the authors. All manuscripts submitted to the Journal are initially reviewed by the Editorial Office to check that they comply with the Journal’s instructions to authors. At th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism and Redundant Publication
COPE defines plagiarism as ‘when somebody presents the work of others (data, words or theories) as if they were his/her own and without proper acknowledgement’. COPE defines redundant publication as ‘when a published work (or substantial sections from a published work) is/are published more than once (in the same or another language) without adequate acknowledgment of the source/cross-referencing/…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints and self-archiving
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels and this does not prevent submission to the Journal. At initial submission, authors should indicate if any preprint is available in a server or repository. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including adding the published paper’s DOI. For full details…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Preprints and self-archiving
Authors retain the right to make an Author’s Original Version (preprint) available through various channels and this does not prevent submission to the Journal. At initial submission, authors should indicate if any preprint is available in a server or repository. If accepted, the authors are required to update the status of any preprint, including adding the published paper’s DOI. For full details…
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
- Oxford University Press
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2047-2404
- Electronic ISSN
- 2047-2412
- Society / sponsor
- European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 27, Issue 9 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging
What CAS zone is European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging is in Zone 1 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems / Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 5.93; CiteScore 10, h-index 132.
How long does peer review take at European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging?
Based on the dates recorded on 45 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 64 days (interquartile range 28–100 days); authors report an average review time of 4–8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. 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 European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: ≤ 6; Reference style: Vancouver; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Cover letter: 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 European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging based?
Of the 153 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (31), Italy (17) and United Kingdom (16). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging open access, and what is the APC?
European Heart Journal-Cardiovascular Imaging is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 5,203.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .