Journal profile · SURGERY
Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques
ISSN 2468-4287 · Elsevier · Netherlands
Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.9 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,000; median 68 days to acceptance (117 articles, last 24 months); 389 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques is published by Elsevier 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 Aortic aneurysm repair treatments, Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches and Vascular Procedures and Complications, together about 39.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases, Innovations and Techniques (JVS-CIT) aims to be the premier international journal of medical, endovascular, and surgical care of vascular diseases by publishing high quality case reports and articles describing innovations and endovascular and surgical techniques. JVS-CIT is an open access, online only journal that publishes articles on aortic, cerebrovascular and peripheral arterial disease, vascular access, wound care, trauma and malformations, and the full spectrum of acute and chronic venous and lymphatic disorders. Articles on innovations may deal with clinical care, education, practice management, or outcome assessment. The Journal seeks to provide novel and timely information to all specialties interested in the prevention and management of patients with vascular diseases, including vascular surgeons, phlebologists, vascular medicine physicians, interventionalists, wound care specialists, trainees, and allied health professionals. As the official publication of The Society for Vascular Surgery, the Journal will publish, after peer review, selected papers and videos presented at the annual meeting of this organization and affiliated vascular societies, as well as original articles and videos from members and non-members.Authors will be notified when a decision is made by the Editor. When a submission is accepted, authors will be required to pay an Author Processing Fee based on the type of article (See Article Types). Following payment of this fee, all articles published in this journal will be “open access” and made universally available at no further charge through ScienceDirect, www.sciencedirect.com, and through the Journal's own website, www.jvscit.org. Authors will retain the copyrights to their publication.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): SURGERY
Editor-in-chief Matthew SmedsPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 46, Italy 4, Canada 4, Japan 2, Germany 1 (58 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Aortic aneurysm repair treatmentsMedicine16.7%
- Aortic Disease and Treatment ApproachesMedicine11.7%
- Vascular Procedures and ComplicationsMedicine11.4%
- Infectious Aortic and Vascular ConditionsMedicine8%
- Peripheral Artery Disease ManagementMedicine6.3%
- Vascular anomalies and interventionsMedicine5.2%
- Central Venous Catheters and HemodialysisHealth Professions4.6%
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine4.6%
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 | Surgery | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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 (publisher)
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 1.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.34LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- h-index
- 21OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 160OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.5OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 296LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,673 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 412 | 412 | 18 |
| 2025 | 389 | 389 | 179 |
| 2024 | 294 | 294 | 353 |
| 2023 | 320 | 320 | 792 |
| 2022 | 239 | 239 | 663 |
| 2021 | 205 | 205 | 714 |
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
68 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 49 days – 95 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 7 days (117 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 75 days
- Sample
- 117 articles with submission and acceptance dates (819 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)
- about 29 weeksLetPub ·
- First decision after review
- 29 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 72 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 16 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,000 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,250 / EUR 1,170 / GBP 1,000 / JPY 155,040 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 1,250 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,000 | — | — |
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)
Open calls for papers2, by deadline
- Deep Venous ArterializationDeadline
- Vascular Society of IndiaDeadline
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- 1–6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 1,200 words
- Not considered
- title page
Article types accepted2, with length limits
- case reportCASE REPORTS. Case Reports should describe a new disease, important original observation, or a unique technical approach. Case Reports should not exceed 1200 wo…main text ≤ 1,200 words
- editorialCASE REPORTS. Case Reports should describe a new disease, important original observation, or a unique technical approach. Case Reports should not exceed 1200 wo…main text ≤ 1,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- AI use Declaration of Generative AI in Scientific Writing
The below guidance only refers to the writing process, and not to the use of AI tools to analyze and draw insights from data as part of the research process. Where authors use generative artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process, authors should only use these technologies to improve readability and language. Applying the technology should be done with human o…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship Criteria
To qualify for authorship in a Journal of Vascular Surgery Publication, each author must have made a significant contribution to the conception or completion of the manuscript and be willing to share the responsibility for the content of the paper. Specifically, authorship is limited to those who made a direct and substantial contribution to each of the four following areas:Substantial contributio…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflicts of Interest
The Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases, Innovations and Techniques is committed to publishing high quality submissions that are free from commercial influence. The authors must indicate any conflict of interest (or the lack thereof) on the Application for Publication Form. The authors' university, institutional, and/or corporate affiliations must be acknowledged on the title page along with sources…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics
Editors adhere to COPE Code of Conduct. Model summary
The Editors adhere to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Code of Conduct, which can be found at http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Authors retain copyright. Model summary
We offer authors a choice of user licenses, which define the permitted reuse of articles.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 2,000 (excluding taxes). This journal is taking part in the GPOA program.Review this journal’s open access policy.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
Double-anonymous peer review; author identities concealed from reviewers and vice versa. Model summary
The Editors and reviewers, by providing constructive reviews, aim to optimize the quality of submitted papers before publication. All submitted manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors or Associate Editors. A submission may be rejected outright if it does not have sufficient merit to warrant further review or deals with subject matter outside the scope of the Journal. Otherwise, manuscrip…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
All submissions screened by iThenticate before publication. Model summary
All submissions, before publication, will be screened by iThenticate, as noted below.
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
- Elsevier
- Country or region
- Netherlands
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2468-4287
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques
What CAS zone is Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Surgery. 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 Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.9; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.1, h-index 21.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques?
Based on the dates recorded on 117 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 68 days (interquartile range 49–95 days); authors report an average review time of about 29 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 Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: 1–6; Manuscript length: ≤ 1,200 words. 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 Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques based?
Of the 58 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (46), Italy (4) and Canada (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases Innovations and Techniques is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,000.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; 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: .