Overview
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine (RCM) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to publishing review papers, research articles, short communications, and other type articles on cardiovascular medicine as well as research on cardiovascular disease, covers clinical, translational, and basic research findings in coronary heart disease and vascular diseases, cardiomyopathies and heart failure, arrhythmias and electrophysiology, cardiovascular interventions and surgery, cardiovascular imaging and diagnostics, cardiovascular pathophysiology, molecular and cellular cardiology. RCM addresses clinicians, researchers, and investigators in related interdisciplinary fields within cardiovascular medicine. We aim to provide a forum for publishing papers that explore the pathogenesis and progression of cardiac and vascular diseases, as well as their prevention, diagnosis, management strategies, and patient outcomes, to serve the discipline development and knowledge dissemination in the field of cardiovascular medicine.
ISSN Numbers
Print ISSN: 1530-6550
Electronic ISSN: 2153-8174
Impact Factor
Publication Frequency: 12 issues per year
Current Impact Factor: 1.3 (2024)
Scopus CiteScore: 2.5
JCR Category Rank: Q3 in CARDIAC & CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS
Journal History
2000 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine released the inaugural issue.
2000 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine has been indexed by PubMed (MEDLINE) and covered by 25th April 2022.
2000 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine has been indexed by Scopus.
2006 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine has been indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).
2008 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine received its first Impact Factor 0.935.
2018 IMR Press started to publish Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine (RCM) with Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
2020 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine has been indexed by Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
2024 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine has been indexed by China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI).
2024 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine became the member journal of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
2024 Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine has been indexed by PubMed Central (PMC).
RCM’s Open Access Initiative
The advent of online publication has greatly improved access to scientific content on a global scale. This has led to calls from the academic community for research publications to be made freely available online and immediately upon publication, without the barrier of paid subscription to access.
In response to these calls, and following consultation with journal contributors, the Editors of Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine (RCM) launched an Open Access initiative for RCM in 2018. This means that it is no longer necessary to have a subscription in order to read current RCM content online.
There are substantial costs associated with publishing a high quality journal such as RCM, including administration of the editorial process, production of the published version, and development of online functionality. Under a subscription-based model, these costs are mainly covered by charging libraries and individuals for access to the journal's contents. Under RCM's Open Access model, we aim to cover the costs of publication primarily through the use of an Article Processing Charge.
Authors Rights and Permissions
Papers published in Volumes 1–18 (from 2000 to 2017) are copyright IMR Press.
Permission is not required when:
IMR Press grants any third party the right to use the article freely, so long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
Permission is not required to use original figures or tables for non-commercial and educational use (e.g., in a review article, or in a book that is not for sale) if the article is copyright IMR Press. Please include the full journal reference and, for articles published in Volumes 1–18 (2000–2017), include "Copyright (copyright year) IMR Press" as a copyright note.
Starting from 2018, all RCM content is available online and is fully browsable and searchable. Articles published beginning from Volume 19 Issue 1 (2018) are under the terms and conditions of the CC BY license. RCM is not authorized to grant permission for material published under either license, as the authors retain copyright. However, depending on the intended use, permission may not be required at all. For details, see: Copyright & License.
IMR Press will insert the following note on the first page of the published text:
© Year The Author(s). Published by IMR Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Association, Institution, or Society Communications
As the official journal of the European Society for Translational Medicine (EUSTM), RCM actively supports the dissemination of the Society’s significant scientific and clinical research.
If you are an association, institution, or society and wish to benefit from the opportunities offered by an official journal, please contact the Editorial Office at RCM@imrpress.com for further information.