THE JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Hybrid journal

Indexed/Abstracted in: BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, EMBASE, PubMed/MEDLINE, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Scopus
Impact Factor 1.4 (2023)

Bi-Monthly

pISSN 0021-9509

eISSN 1827-191X

Publishing options

Publishing Options
The Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery is a hybrid journal which means that for all manuscripts submitted and accepted for publication in the journal Minerva Medica offers authors the option either to publish their article open access or to follow the traditional subscription-based model. Regardless of what publication model is chosen, the manuscript will be submitted to the standard review process and will be accepted or rejected on its scientific merits alone.

Open access model
- Your manuscript will be freely available online upon publication to anyone anywhere;
- authors will retain copyright and will be asked to sign a License Agreement. Minerva Medica will distribute the article under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC) which allows users to read, download and share the work as long as the use is not commercial and the user gives appropriate credits to the author(s) and the source (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license and indicates if changes were made;
- authors will be asked to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) which may be borne by organization (the author's affiliated institution or a funding body) which supported the research the article refers to and requests its open access publication. Authors can publish under the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) if required by their funder.
Traditional (Subscription-Based) publishing model
- The manuscript will be made available to institutions and individuals who purchased a subscription or paid to read specific articles;
- authors will be asked to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement;
- publication of the manuscript is free of charge;
- the authors of articles published via the subscription-based route are permitted to self-archive the preprint and postprint version of their research in several ways provided that they comply to the Self-archiving policy about what can be archived, where and when.

Publication Costs
Subscription-based model
Page charges. Publication of the manuscript is free of charge. Language revision and excessive alterations to proofs will be charged to the authors.
Figure charges. Figures supplied in color will be published in color online free of charge. For color reproduction in the printed version, authors will receive upon request information regarding the costs.
Offprints. Authors will receive instructions on how to order offprints and PDF of the manuscript.
Open access model
Article Processing Charges. Authors will be asked to pay an APC of €1800.00 (€1500.00 for letters to the Editor), plus VAT or local taxes where applicable. Language revision and excessive alterations to proofs will be charged to the authors.
Figure charges. Figures supplied in color will be published in color online free of charge. For color reproduction in the printed version, authors will receive upon request information regarding the costs.

About CC Licenses
https://creativecommons.org/about/cclicenses/