Journal profile · CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS
World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
ISSN 2150-1351 · eISSN 2150-136X · SAGE
World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 0.9 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 4,150; review about 85 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 41.8% (journal website); 157 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery is published by SAGE 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 Congenital Heart Disease Studies, Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair and Coronary Artery Anomalies, together about 44.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
WJPCHS is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed scientific publication dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge pertaining to congenital heart anomalies, and pediatric heart diseases in general. Official journal of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS), Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS), and European … | View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS
Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 2%); most named United States 76, United Kingdom 6, Germany 6, Japan 4, Brazil 4 (136 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Congenital Heart Disease StudiesMedicine29.4%
- Cardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairMedicine8.1%
- Coronary Artery AnomaliesMedicine6.8%
- Tracheal and airway disordersMedicine6.5%
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsMedicine5.8%
- Aortic Disease and Treatment ApproachesMedicine5.7%
- Mechanical Circulatory Support DevicesEngineering5.5%
- Vascular anomalies and interventionsMedicine3.9%
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.
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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.37LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.67LetPub ·
- h-index
- 43OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 469OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.93OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 11.1%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 8.29%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 112LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,271 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 120 | 34 | 10 |
| 2025 | 157 | 34 | 129 |
| 2024 | 162 | 56 | 269 |
| 2023 | 151 | 42 | 431 |
| 2022 | 136 | 20 | 530 |
| 2021 | 158 | 20 | 939 |
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
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
85 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 41.8%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 5 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 85 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 69 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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 4,150 / GBP 3,043 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Colour charges
- USD 800
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 prepare2 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- AMA
Article types accepted7, with length limits
- case reporttheir respective parent(s) or guardian. Case Reports should not exceed 1200 words, inclusive of abstract, text, tables, figure legends, and umain text ≤ 1,200 words
- commentaryer reviewed to ensure accuracy. Invited Commentary should not exceed 1200 words, inclusive of text, tables, figure legends, and up to 8 refmain text ≤ 1,200 words
- editoriallegends, and up to 8 references. Guest Editorials should not exceed 2500 words, inclusive of text, tables, figure legends, and references.main text ≤ 2,500 words
- letterView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…Length not stated
- original articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…main text ≤ 5,000 words
- reviewto publish the case report. Historical Review should not exceed 2500 words, inclusive of abstract, text, tables, figure legends, and rmain text ≤ 2,500 words
- review articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstrac…main text ≤ 6,500 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
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
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
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, the following fees apply: $800 for the first color figure and $200 for each color figure thereafter. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Single-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 does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
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
- ISSN
- 2150-1351
- Electronic ISSN
- 2150-136X
- Society / sponsor
- World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
What CAS zone is World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery 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 World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery?
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 1.7, h-index 43.
How long does peer review take at World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery?
The publisher reports about 85 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 41.8%. 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 World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: AMA. 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 World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery based?
Of the 136 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 3 (about 2%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (76), United Kingdom (6) and Germany (6). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery open access, and what is the APC?
World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 4,150.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .