Journal profile · Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine
ISSN 1530-6550 · eISSN 2153-8174 · IMR Press · Singapore · Monthly · Founded 1999
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.22; fully open access; APC about USD 3,200; median 88 days to acceptance (98 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 477 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine is published by IMR Press and is in Zone 3 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, Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors and Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes, together about 24.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine (RCM) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal. RCM publishes review papers, research articles, short communications, and other type articles on cardiovascular medicine as well as research on cardiovascular disease, covering clinical, translational, and basic research findings in coronary heart disease and vascular diseases, cardiomyopathies and heart failure, arrhythmias and electrophysiology, cardiovascular interventions and surgery, cardiovascular imaging and diagnostics, cardiovascular pathophysiology, molecular and cellular cardiology. RCM addresses clinicians, researchers, and investigators in related interdisciplinary fields within cardiovascular medicine. We aim to provide a forum for publishing papers that explore the pathogenesis and progression of cardiac and vascular diseases, as well as their prevention, diagnosis, management strategies, and patient outcomes, to serve the discipline development and knowledge dissemination in the field of cardiovascular medicine. The topics included, but not limited to: Arrhythmia Heart Failure Congenital Heart Disease Coronary Heart Disease Cardiac Regeneration Cardiac Imaging Cardiovascular Pathology Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics Cardiac Physiology Cardio-oncology Electrophysiology Transplantation Cardiometabolic Diseases Cardiorenal Syndrome Critical Care and Resuscitation Hypertension Stroke Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Preventive and Precision Cardiovascular Medicine Translational Cardiovascular Medicine Biophysics Clinical Research Intervention Surgery Diagnostic Testing Epidemiology Genetics Lifestyle and Prevention Quality and Outcomes Vascular Disease
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Editor-in-chief Yujie ZhouPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 28 in mainland China (about 19%); most named Italy 35, Mainland China 28, United States 25, Greece 8, Japan 3 (144 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsMedicine8.5%
- Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsMedicine8.2%
- Atrial Fibrillation Management and OutcomesMedicine7.9%
- Coronary Interventions and DiagnosticsMedicine7.1%
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine7%
- Cardiac Arrhythmias and TreatmentsMedicine5.1%
- Acute Myocardial Infarction ResearchMedicine4.6%
- Heart Failure Treatment and ManagementMedicine4.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
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)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
PMCPublisher website
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
- 2.22LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 3.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.64LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.71LetPub ·
- h-index
- 37LetPub ·
- h-index
- 50OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 529OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.18OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 459LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,796 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 366 | 366 | 110 |
| 2025 | 477 | 477 | 1,372 |
| 2024 | 466 | 466 | 2,680 |
| 2023 | 375 | 375 | 2,235 |
| 2022 | 415 | 415 | 4,044 |
| 2021 | 180 | 180 | 2,801 |
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
88 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 71 days – 114 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 113 days (98 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 200 days
- Sample
- 98 articles with submission and acceptance dates (912 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 10 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 92 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 23 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 3,200 | Yes | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,200 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,200 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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 prepare7 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 350 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 6,000 words
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- Templates
- Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional, 2
Article types accepted3
- research articlesdedicated to publishing review papers, research articles, short communications, and other type articlesLength not stated
- review papersdedicated to publishing review papers, research articles, short communications, and other type articlesLength not stated
- short communicationsdedicated to publishing review papers, research articles, short communications, and other type articlesLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Authorship 7. Authorship
According to the ICMJE guidelines, to qualify as an author a contributor should meet each of these four criteria: they have (i) made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; and (ii) been involved in drafting the manuscript or reviewing it critically for important intellectual content; and (iii) given final approval of the …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest 10. Conflict of Interest
Authors, reviewers, and editors must declare whether there are any potential conflicts of interest (COIs) regarding the publication and handling of a study. Authors will declare their conflicts of interest in every published article and the name of Academic Editors who make the final decision will appear in published articles. The editors and peer reviewers should declare their COIs to the Editori…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 6.2 Publication Ethics Statement
RCM follows the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright 8. Copyright/Open Access
Starting from 2018, all RCM's content is available online, and is fully browsable and searchable. All RCM papers are published as Open Access articles under the unrestrictive CC-BY license. The copyright is retained by the author(s). IMR Press will insert the following note in the footer of the first page of the published text: © Year The Author(s). Published by IMR Press. This is an open access a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access 8. Copyright/Open Access
Starting from 2018, all RCM's content is available online, and is fully browsable and searchable. All RCM papers are published as Open Access articles under the unrestrictive CC-BY license. The copyright is retained by the author(s). IMR Press will insert the following note in the footer of the first page of the published text: © Year The Author(s). Published by IMR Press. This is an open access a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 12. Editorial Process and Peer-Review
IMR operates rigorous and transparent peer-review process and editorial process that aims to maximize quality. Peer-review is handled by researchers and scholars. For more details, see our Editorial Process.
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
- IMR Press
- Country or region
- Singapore
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1999
- ISSN
- 1530-6550
- Electronic ISSN
- 2153-8174
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine
What CAS zone is Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 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 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 2.22; CiteScore 3.1, h-index 50.
How long does peer review take at Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine?
Based on the dates recorded on 98 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 88 days (interquartile range 71–114 days); authors report an average review time of about 10 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 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 350 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Manuscript length: ≤ 6,000 words; Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; Templates: Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional, 2. 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 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine based?
Of the 144 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 28 (about 19%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Italy (35), Mainland China (28) and United States (25). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists PMC; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine open access, and what is the APC?
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,200.
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: .