The Pathway to a High Impact Journal and Scopus Indexation–New Achievement of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Sciences

Abstract

Elsevier and was launched in 2004. Scopus covers over 25,100 titles (over 23,452 peer-reviewed journals) from approximately 5,000 publishers. IJCS has made some important changes to be accepted in Scopus, including an entirely new and highly interactive website (ijcscardiol.org), a renovation of the editorial board with a more diverse international team of experts in cardiovascular sciences, adoption of open science directives 1 and gender equity policies, 2 and a high bar for evaluation of articles for publication. These changes contributed to better results concerning the impact of the journal. From 2017 to 2020, IJCS published 390 articles (191 original articles). IJCS articles were cited 493 times. IJCS's h-index is 13 (Google Scholar), and published articles had 573,736 accesses on SciELO. The rejection rate of IJCS is 46%, and average time for article acceptance is 77 days.