Journal profile · Medicine-Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed
ISSN 2604-7322 · Permanyer · Spain
REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.5 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 64 days to acceptance (84 articles, last 24 months); 67 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed is published by Permanyer 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 Valve Diseases and Treatments, Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics and Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics, together about 41% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine and Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The essential aim of our journal is to disseminate high-quality knowledge in the field of Interventional Cardiology with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of care provided to the patients with heart disease, improving health outcomes. The scope includes both diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of cardiovascular disease related to catheter-based techniques and their multiple variants. The journal publishes rigorously peer-reviewed papers on clinical and experimental topics, approved by the editorial committee and in line with editorial policy. The topics covered include diagnostic techniques, percutaneous interventional procedures, drug therapy, laboratory findings and clinical trials, published as original articles, reviews and updates, editorials, debate articles, images in cardiology and scientific letters. REC: Interventional Cardiology is aimed at all health-care professionals involved in Interventional Cardiology, mainly interventional cardiologists, from fellows in training to the most senior experts, but also involving clinical cardiologists, experts in non-invasive imaging, nursing professionals and technicians. In addition, of course, those patients who wish to have reliable and very rigorous knowledge on this subject.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Spain 64, United States 3, Mexico 2, Argentina 2, Italy 1 (76 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine16.5%
- Coronary Interventions and DiagnosticsMedicine15.2%
- Cardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsMedicine9.3%
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and ManagementMedicine4.3%
- Congenital Heart Disease StudiesMedicine4.2%
- Cardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairMedicine3.9%
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and OutcomesMedicine3.6%
- Peripheral Artery Disease ManagementMedicine3.6%
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 | 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.
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ESCIPMCPubMedEmbaseSciELOPublisher website
Other: Latindex
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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)
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.29LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.42LetPub ·
- h-index
- 8OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 6OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.23OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 599 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 56 | 56 | 2 |
| 2025 | 67 | 67 | 11 |
| 2024 | 67 | 67 | 30 |
| 2023 | 67 | 67 | 43 |
| 2022 | 95 | 95 | 96 |
| 2021 | 68 | 68 | 97 |
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 · to
64 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 36 days – 85 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 47 days (84 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 117 days
- Sample
- 84 articles with submission and acceptance dates (139 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 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-ND | |
| LetPub | No APC | No | — |
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 prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 300 words
- Keywords
- 3–10
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- editorial5.1. ORIGINAL ARTICLES Authors: There is no specific limit to the number of authors but listing more than 25 will require the assessment/approval of the editori…Length not stated
- letters to the editor5.5. LETTERS TO THE EDITORLength not stated
- original article5.1. ORIGINAL ARTICLES Authors: There is no specific limit to the number of authors but listing more than 25 will require the assessment/approval of the editori…Length not stated
- original articles5.1. ORIGINAL ARTICLESLength not stated
- review articleistry (eg, www.clinicaltrials.gov) 5.2. REVIEW ARTICLES Length: These articles should not exceed 7000 words (including abstract, tables, figure legends and refe…main text ≤ 7,000 words
- review articles5.2. REVIEW ARTICLESLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- 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 analyse and draw insights from data as part of the research process.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship 3.3. AUTHORSHIP
Authors REC: Interventional Cardiology ascribes to the authorship criteria for scientific articles defined by the (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors). Consequently, each person designated as an author must meet all of the following requirements: Have substantially contributed to the conception or design of the work or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of the data for th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Disclosure instructions
Authors must disclose the use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process by adding a statement at the end of their manuscript in the core manuscript file, before the References list. The statement should be placed in a new section entitled "Statement on the use of artificial intelligence".
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data sharing policy
To ensure the transparency and reproducibility of research, and whenever ethically possible, REC: Interventional Cardiology strongly recommends that authors make their research data publicly available through a data repository. This information should be stated in the cover letter. If data disclosure is not possible, the authors should justify the reasons.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 3.1. Ethical considerations
Ethical responsibilities Authors submitting a manuscript accept full responsibility for its content as defined by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Relevant ethical documentation should be made available if required by the editorial team. The research reported in papers submitted to REC: Interventional Cardiology must be carried out in accordance with internationally accepted…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright and authors’ rights
Acceptance of a manuscript for publication implies the automatic transfer of publishing rights to the Spanish Society of Cardiology.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access 3.4. Open access
Open access; no publication fees; CC BY-NC-ND license. Model summary
REC: Interventional Cardiology is an open access journal, and its content are freely available. Authors are not required to pay for publication of their articles. All journal content is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND license (CC BY-NC-ND). Its reuse is allowed on the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND). You may not use the material for commercial purpo…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-blind peer review; reviewers and authors anonymous throughout the process. Model summary
REC: Interventional Cardiology follows a double-blind peer review, meaning that both reviewers and authors are anonymous throughout the process.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
Plagiarism is substantially copying the content of someone else’s or one’s own work and presenting it as previously unpublished.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints 2.1. PREPRINT
Preprints not considered prior publication; must be disclosed in cover letter. Model summary
REC: Publications does not consider preprints as prior publication. Preprints can be sent for evaluation if on submission the authors disclose in the cover letter that the article is a preprint and confirm that it has not been peer-reviewed nor published in an indexed publication. In the same letter they should provide a link to the preprint publication. If the article is finally published, it is …
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
- Permanyer
- Country or region
- Spain
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISSN
- 2604-7322
- Society / sponsor
- Interventional Cardiology Association at the Spanish Society of Cardiology
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed
What CAS zone is REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed 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.
What is the impact factor of REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.5; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.3, h-index 8.
How long does peer review take at REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed?
Based on the dates recorded on 84 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 64 days (interquartile range 36–85 days); 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 REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 300 words; Keywords: 3–10; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: AMA; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: 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 REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed based?
Of the 76 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Spain (64), United States (3) and Mexico (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ESCI, PMC, PubMed, Embase and SciELO; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed open access, and what is the APC?
REC Interventional Cardiology English Ed 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, Publisher website, 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .