Journal profile · CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS
Kardiologie
ISSN 2731-7129 · eISSN 2731-7137 · Springer Nature
Kardiologie: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,390; 65 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Kardiologie is published by Springer Nature 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 Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics and Cardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments, together about 29.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsMedicine12.1%
- Coronary Interventions and DiagnosticsMedicine9.1%
- Cardiac Arrhythmias and TreatmentsMedicine8.1%
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine6.9%
- Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmiasMedicine6.5%
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsMedicine5.5%
- Acute Myocardial Infarction ResearchMedicine5.1%
- Heart Failure Treatment and ManagementMedicine4.9%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | Q4 | 308/409 | 24th |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.2LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.41LetPub ·
- h-index
- 10OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 11OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.91OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 36.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 5.15%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 48LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 289 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 62 | 32 | 141 |
| 2025 | 65 | 15 | 154 |
| 2024 | 60 | 13 | 73 |
| 2023 | 64 | 25 | 35 |
| 2022 | 38 | 12 | 4 |
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
Not usableThis publisher's "received" date is mostly when the revised manuscript arrived (26% of articles were "accepted" within 3 days), so it cannot measure review time
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 3,390 / EUR 2,790 / GBP 2,390 | — | — |
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- ISSN
- 2731-7129
- Electronic ISSN
- 2731-7137
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Kardiologie
What CAS zone is Kardiologie in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Kardiologie 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.
Which databases index Kardiologie?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Kardiologie is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Kardiologie open access, and what is the APC?
Kardiologie is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,390.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, 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: .