Journal profile
Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology
ISSN 2632-4636 · eISSN 2632-4644 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology: diamond open access (no APC); no APC; review about 15 weeks (community reports); 69 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology is published by SAGE Publishing. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics and Acute Myocardial Infarction Research, together about 30.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology is the official Journal of Telangana Chapter of Cardiological Society of India. The Journal is a comprehensive cardiology publication, which aims at publishing original peer reviewed articles and invited review articles in different sub-specialities of cardiology. The focus of the journal is on topics of contemporary and clinically relevant areas for practising cardiologists. Journal aims to provide a global platform for interaction between technology development, academicians, researchers and practitioners. The journal will also tap into the vast pool of emerging talent in fellowship programmes and provide micro modules for research work. The journal will run as a full scope journal, involving publication ofOriginal researchReview articles on various topicsCase reportsInteresting images and graphicsFellow forumLetters to editorEditorialSnap reviews onlineConsensus statements periodicallyQuiz
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named India 19, United States 5 (24 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsMedicine10.5%
- Coronary Interventions and DiagnosticsMedicine10.4%
- Acute Myocardial Infarction ResearchMedicine9.5%
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmiasMedicine7.7%
- Cardiac Arrhythmias and TreatmentsMedicine6.5%
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine5.3%
- Congenital Heart Disease StudiesMedicine4.6%
- Aortic Disease and Treatment ApproachesMedicine3.6%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
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
- h-index
- 7OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 3OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.25OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 400 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 58 | 58 | 43 |
| 2025 | 69 | 69 | 75 |
| 2024 | 84 | 84 | 56 |
| 2023 | 58 | 58 | 39 |
| 2022 | 43 | 43 | 21 |
| 2021 | 49 | 49 | 14 |
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
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 15 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 15 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
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
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 0 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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 prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 150–200 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 3,500 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted14, with length limits
- case reportThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- case reportsThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- ecg and electrophysiology (ep) cornerThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- imaging cornerThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- journal scanThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- letter to the editorThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- letters to the editorThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- original articleThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …main text ≤ 3,000 words
- original research articleThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- original research articlesThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- review articleThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …main text ≤ 3,500 words
- review articlesThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- short communicationThe Journal welcomes Original research articles, Review articles on various topics, Case reports ECG and Electrophysiology (EP) Corner, Imaging Corner, Journal …Length not stated
- short communicationsShort communications: Clinical innovations, technique tips and techno transfers should be short and restricted to 750 words.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
EQUATOR reporting guidelines Model summary
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
COPE member Model summary
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. There are currently no article processing charges (APCs) to publish in the journal. For general information on open access at Sage please visit the Open A…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
Clinical trial registration required Model summary
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
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
- SAGE Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2632-4636
- Electronic ISSN
- 2632-4644
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology
How long does peer review take at Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology?
Authors report an average review time of about 15 weeks. 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 Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 150–200 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Manuscript length: ≤ 3,500 words; Reference style: AMA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; 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 Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology based?
Of the 24 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (19) and United States (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology open access, and what is the APC?
Indian Journal of Clinical Cardiology is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, DOAJ, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .