Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa

ISSN 1015-9657 · Clinics Cardive Publishing · ZA · active 1990–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
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Cites per paper (2y)
0.7
SJR
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h-index
49

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 25 October 2026 (venue index build).

Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa has an h-index of 49 (OpenAlex). Listed in Web of Science, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

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Access status:
hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

congenitalheartdiseaseepidemiologycardiacvalvediseasestreatmentscardiologycardiovascularmedicinefunction

Frequently asked

Is Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa appears in: Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa?

Papers in Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa are cited about 0.7 times each within two years of publication, with an h-index of 49. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is Cardiovascular journal of South Africa/Cardiovascular journal of Southern Africa open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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