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Best Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine journals

407 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. The top 100 by CiteScore percentile are listed below — 100 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Nature Reviews Cardiology 60.7 99th Q1 SCIE No
2 Circulation 47.3 99th Q1 SCIE No
3 European Heart Journal 35.9 99th Q1 SCIE No
4 Journal of the American College of Cardiology 34.4 99th Q1 SCIE No
5 JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging 29.3 98th Q1 SCIE No
6 Revista Espanola de Cardiologia (English edition) 27.5 98th Q1 SCIE No
7 Circulation Research 24.8 98th Q1 SCIE No
8 Cardiovascular Research 22.6 98th Q1 SCIE No
9 JAMA Cardiology 22.4 97th Q1 SCIE No
10 European Journal of Heart Failure 19.7 97th Q1 SCIE No
11 Cardiovascular Diabetology 18.7 97th Q1 SCIE Yes
12 Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine 18.2 97th Q1 SCIE No
13 JACC: CardioOncology 16.3 96th Q1 SCIE Yes
14 European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 16.1 96th Q1 SCIE No
15 JACC: Heart Failure 16 96th Q1 SCIE No
16 Nature Cardiovascular Research 15.6 96th Q1 ESCI No
17 Europace 14.8 95th Q1 SCIE No
18 Journal of Stroke 13.6 95th Q1 SCIE Yes
19 Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases 13.6 95th Q1 SCIE No
20 Basic Research in Cardiology 13.5 95th Q1 SCIE No
21 Stroke 13.1 94th Q1 SCIE No
22 EuroIntervention 13 94th Q1 SCIE No
23 Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology 12.2 94th Q1 SCIE No
24 Heart Failure Reviews 12.2 94th Q1 SCIE No
25 JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions 11.9 94th Q1 SCIE No
26 Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology 11.8 93th Q1 SCIE No
27 JACC: Basic to Translational Science 11.4 93th Q1 SCIE Yes
28 Chest 11.2 93th Q1 SCIE No
29 Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions 11.1 93th Q1 SCIE No
30 European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy 11 92th Q1 SCIE No
31 Circulation: Heart Failure 10.6 92th Q1 SCIE No
32 Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 10.6 92th Q1 SCIE No
33 Current Atherosclerosis Reports 10.5 92th Q1 SCIE No
34 Atherosclerosis 10.2 91th Q1 SCIE No
35 Journal of Lipid and Atherosclerosis 10.2 91th Q1 Yes
36 Cardiac Failure Review 10 91th Q1 ESCI Yes
37 European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes 10 91th Q1 SCIE No
38 European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging 10 90th Q1 SCIE No
39 Heart 10 90th Q1 SCIE No
40 Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 10 90th Q1 SCIE No
41 Stroke and Vascular Neurology 9.8 90th Q1 SCIE Yes
42 Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 9.7 89th Q1 No
43 GeroScience 9.6 89th Q1 SCIE No
44 Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 9.6 89th Q1 SCIE No
45 Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 9.5 89th Q1 SCIE No
46 JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology 9.4 88th Q1 SCIE No
47 Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 9.4 88th Q1 SCIE No
48 Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy 9 88th Q1 SCIE No
49 Journal of Cardiac Failure 9 88th Q1 SCIE No
50 Translational Stroke Research 8.9 87th Q1 SCIE No
51 Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis 8.8 87th Q1 SCIE No
52 Resuscitation 8.6 87th Q1 SCIE No
53 Annals of Thoracic Surgery 8.3 87th Q1 SCIE No
54 Hypertension Research 8.2 86th Q1 SCIE No
55 Journal of the American Heart Association 8.1 86th Q1 SCIE Yes
56 International Journal of Heart Failure 8 86th Q1 Yes
57 European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 7.8 86th Q1 SCIE No
58 Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal 7.8 85th Q1 Yes
59 European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care 7.6 85th Q1 SCIE No
60 Current Opinion in Lipidology 7.5 85th Q1 SCIE No
61 JACC: Asia 7.5 85th Q1 ESCI Yes
62 Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 7.5 84th Q1 SCIE No
63 European Stroke Journal 7.5 84th Q1 SCIE No
64 Clinical Research in Cardiology 7.4 84th Q1 SCIE No
65 Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography 7.4 84th Q1 SCIE No
66 Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine 7.3 83th Q1 SCIE No
67 Journal of Hypertension 7.1 83th Q1 SCIE No
68 ESC Heart Failure 7 83th Q1 SCIE Yes
69 European Heart Journal - Digital Health 7 83th Q1 ESCI Yes
70 Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases 7 83th Q1 SCIE No
71 Clinical Hypertension 7 82th Q1 ESCI Yes
72 Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 7 82th Q1 SCIE Yes
73 Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 7 82th Q1 SCIE No
74 Journal of Vascular Surgery 6.9 82th Q1 SCIE No
75 Canadian Journal of Cardiology 6.9 81th Q1 SCIE No
76 Journal of Clinical Lipidology 6.9 81th Q1 SCIE No
77 Current Cardiology Reports 6.8 81th Q1 SCIE No
78 American Heart Journal 6.7 81th Q1 SCIE No
79 American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology 6.6 80th Q1 SCIE No
80 Heart Rhythm 6.6 80th Q1 SCIE No
81 Current Heart Failure Reports 6.5 80th Q1 ESCI No
82 European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing 6.5 80th Q1 SCIE, SSCI No
83 Integrated Blood Pressure Control 6.4 79th Q1 Yes
84 Global Heart 6.3 79th Q1 SCIE Yes
85 International Journal of Cardiology 6.3 79th Q1 SCIE No
86 Journal of Cardiology 6.3 79th Q1 SCIE No
87 American Journal of Preventive Cardiology 6.2 78th Q1 ESCI Yes
88 Angiology 6.2 78th Q1 SCIE No
89 Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis 6.2 78th Q1 SCIE No
90 Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine 6.1 78th Q1 SCIE Yes
91 Cardiovascular Therapeutics 6.1 77th Q1 SCIE Yes
92 Microvascular Research 6.1 77th Q1 SCIE No
93 American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs 6 77th Q1 SCIE No
94 Journal of Nuclear Cardiology 5.9 77th Q1 SCIE No
95 Circulation Journal 5.9 76th Q1 SCIE No
96 Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders 5.9 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
97 Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Review 5.8 76th Q1 ESCI Yes
98 Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research 5.8 76th Q1 SCIE Yes
99 Cardiovascular Toxicology 5.7 75th Q1 SCIE No
100 European Cardiology Review 5.7 75th Q1 ESCI Yes

Rank and percentile are within the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Scopus subject table (CiteScore 2025, dataset 2026-06-09). A journal can rank differently in its other subject areas — open its profile for the full picture.

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