CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 medical journal

Medical journal

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 published by Springer Science+Business Media

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. It is the official journal of the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe

Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe

The Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe is a professional body comprising interventional radiologists from Europe and overseas. The society has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria and was founded in 1985. It currently has approximately 4,200 members from around the...

. The journal publishes laboratory and clinical investigations, technical notes, case reports, brief communications, letters to the editor, as well as review articles

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, opinions, editorial

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s, and special invited submissions in the field of cardiac

Heart

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, vascular

Vascular

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, and interventional radiology

Interventional radiology

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. The editor in chief

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 is Dierk Vorwerk (Dept. of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Klinikum Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt

Ingolstadt

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, Germany).

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has a 2009 impact factor

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 of 1.949, ranking it 48th out of 95 in the category "Cardiac and cardiovascular systems" and 47th of 104 in "Radiology, nuclear medicine & medical imaging". In addition, the journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic OneFile

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, Current Contents

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/Clinical Medicine, EMBASE

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, Health Reference Center Academic

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, INIS Atomindex

International Nuclear Information System

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, PubMed

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/MEDLINE

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, Science Citation Index Expanded

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, and Scopus

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Affiliated societies

The journal is also the official organ of the following societies:

• Austrian Society of Interventional Radiology
• Brazilian Society of Interventional Radiology and Endovascular Surgery
• British Society of Interventional Radiology
• Cardiovascular and Interventional Society of Turkey
• Chinese Society Interventional Radiology
• Czech Society of Interventional Radiology
• Danish Society of Interventional Radiology
• Dutch Society of Interventional Radiology
• Finnish Society of Interventional Radiology
• German Society of Interventional Radiology
• Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
• Interventional Radiology Section of the Polish Medical Society of Radiology
• Israeli Society of Interventional Radiology
• Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology
• Korean Society of Interventional Radiology
• Russian Society of Interventional OncoRadiology
• Swiss Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology