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Heart Failure Clinics

Elsevier Inc. · United States · Est. 1999

ISSN1551-7136eISSN1551-7136

SJR Q2✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.608

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.632

Total Worksi

1,569

Total Citationsi

21,542

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.81

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Heart Failure Clinics provides practical, concise, and easy-to-read coverage of the current literature on heart failure. Topics include acute decompensated heart failure, referral parameters for advanced heart failure and transplantation centers, and the evaluation process for candidacy for advanced therapies such as left ventricular assist device implantation and heart transplantation.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1999

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,569

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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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?

Elsevier Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1551-7136 / 1551-7136

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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

1.9k

2019

433

2020

1.1k

2021

661

2022

256

2023

137

2024

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.

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineQ2

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Cardiac & Cardiovascular System

Scopus Categories

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Cardiovascular Function and Risk FactorsHeart Failure Treatment and ManagementCardiac pacing and defibrillation studiesCardiac Imaging and DiagnosticsCardiac Structural Anomalies and RepairMechanical Circulatory Support DevicesCardiomyopathy and Myosin StudiesCardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsCardiac Arrhythmias and TreatmentsCardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias

Frequently asked questions about Heart Failure Clinics

Is Heart Failure Clinics a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Heart Failure Clinics: 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 Failure Clinics?

Heart Failure Clinics 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 0.81.

Is Heart Failure Clinics indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Heart Failure Clinics is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.