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Heart Surgery Forum

Forum Multimedia Publishing LLC · United States · Est. 1969

ISSN1522-6662

SJR Q3✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.238

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.304

Total Worksi

2,504

Total Citationsi

14,321

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.39

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Cardiac & Cardiovascular System; Surgery; Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1969

Annual Volume~ 141 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,504

Publisher OrgCarden Jennings Publishing Co.

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Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Forum Multimedia Publishing LLC

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1522-6662

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

499

2019

177

813

2020

190

904

2021

149

430

2022

121

314

2023

181

136

2024

120

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

SurgeryQ3

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Cardiac & Cardiovascular SystemSurgery

Scopus Categories

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSurgery

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Cardiac and Coronary Surgery TechniquesCardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsAortic Disease and Treatment ApproachesCardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairCongenital Heart Disease StudiesMechanical Circulatory Support DevicesCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesInfective Endocarditis Diagnosis and ManagementAtrial Fibrillation Management and OutcomesCardiac tumors and thrombi

Frequently asked questions about Heart Surgery Forum

Is Heart Surgery Forum a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Heart Surgery Forum: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Heart Surgery Forum?

Heart Surgery Forum is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.39.

Is Heart Surgery Forum indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Heart Surgery Forum is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Heart Surgery Forum?