Hellenic Journal of Radiology

About Hellenic Journal of Radiology

Hellenic Journal of Radiology — Journal Profile

Hellenic Journal of Radiology (abbreviated Hell. J. Radiol., and known on its own platform simply as HJR) is the official journal of the Hellenic Radiological Society, the professional and scientific society of radiologists in Greece. Its own About page gives the lineage plainly: the journal was first published in 1968, and the present edition — described by the journal itself as a revived edition, published in English — aspires to promote scientific knowledge in radiology, both in diagnosis and in image-guided therapy, worldwide. Its print ISSN is 2529-0568 and its online ISSN is 2654-1629; the Journals World record for this post (35702) stores the same pair, in the order 2654-1629, 2529-0568. One correction matters at the outset: the older short profile on this page named the publisher only as a number, “8702”. That figure is a database artefact, not a publisher. SCImago-derived listings name the publisher as Zita Medical Management of Greece (some secondary listings render the name as “Zita Medical Managent”), and the journal itself is presented, on its official site, as the organ of the Hellenic Radiological Society.

A national society journal that restarts in English is making a deliberate statement about audience. Greek radiology has a long institutional history — the Hellenic Radiological Society governs itself through a president, an executive board and a general assembly, and its journal has historically appeared in quarterly issues covering all technical and clinical aspects of diagnostic imaging and intervention. The revived Hellenic Journal of Radiology keeps that society anchoring but addresses itself, in its own words, to international authors and readers, offering what it calls a compact forum of communication for medical imaging and related-science specialists. That combination — a Greek society title with an English-language, internationally open editorial policy — is the essential fact about this journal, and everything else in this profile follows from it.

Identity and Identifiers

The two ISSNs repay a moment of attention, because databases disagree about which to display first. OpenAlex resolves either number to the same source record (OpenAlex source S7407075437, checked for this profile) and gives the ISSN-L as 2529-0568, which matches the print role assigned to that number in secondary listings: 2529-0568 print, 2654-1629 online. The Journals World stored record lists the online number first. Either number, searched exactly, leads to this journal and to no other — the twin-check carried out for this profile on Journals World itself returned this post alone for both the hyphenated and the unhyphenated forms of each ISSN, and the other records that surfaced on title searches (Journal of Imaging, ISSN 2313-433X, and Archives of Hellenic Medicine, ISSN 1105-3992) are different journals with different identifiers, mentioned here only so that nobody confuses them with this one.

History: a 1968 Society Journal, Revived in English

The journal’s own account is short and should be quoted rather than embellished: “Hellenic Journal of Radiology (‘HJR’) is the official journal of the Hellenic Radiological Society, first published in 1968. This revived edition of HJR, published in English, aspires to promote scientific knowledge in Radiology both at diagnosis and image guided therapy, worldwide.” Three facts sit inside those two sentences. First, the title is not a start-up: a Greek radiology periodical under this name has existed since 1968, which places its founding in the era when Greek radiology was organising itself as a distinct specialty with its own training pathway — in Greece, radiologists train for five years across all sectors of imaging and interventional techniques, in certified state and university hospitals, before state examinations for the specialist title. Second, the present series is explicitly a revival: there was an interruption, and the society chose to relaunch rather than to let the title lapse. Third, the relaunch changed the language. Publishing in English is what turns a national society bulletin into a journal that a radiologist in another country can read, cite and submit to without translation.

Secondary coverage data tell the same story from the outside. SCImago-derived listings give the revived journal’s Scopus-era coverage as beginning in 2019, and the short profile previously on this page gave coverage as 2019–2025. That 2019 start is the coverage of the revived series, not the birth of the title: a reader who finds “coverage 2019–” in a database and concludes that the journal was founded in 2019 has misread the record, and this profile flags the point precisely because the journal’s own About page gives 1968. Where a founding editor, a founding volume numbering or a year-by-year publication history beyond those two anchor points is concerned, the sources fetched for this profile do not publish a fuller chronology, so none is invented here: the detailed early history of the 1968 series could not be verified from the official pages available at checking time.

Scope: What the Journal Publishes

The journal states its aim as raising the profile of current evidence-based imaging practice and improving scientific, multidisciplinary dialogue, and it presents “clinically pertinent, original research and timely review articles”. Its section policies, published on its own site, divide submissions into Editorials, Original Articles, Reviews, Pictorial Essays and a section called Clinical Cases — Test Yourself. That list is a fair map of how radiology actually communicates. Original articles carry the specialty’s research: diagnostic accuracy studies, imaging-protocol comparisons, dose and safety work, interventional outcomes. Reviews synthesise fast-moving areas — a modality, a technique, a disease pathway — for readers who practise across the whole breadth of imaging. Pictorial essays are a distinctively radiological form: a curated sequence of images that teaches pattern recognition, the core skill of the specialty, in a way prose alone cannot. The “Test Yourself” clinical cases invert the usual article: the reader is shown a case and invited to reason towards the diagnosis, which makes the section an educational instrument as much as a publication venue.

SCImago-derived subject listings place the journal in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, and in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology, both at Q4, and — more surprisingly to a clinical reader — also list computer-science-flavoured categories, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Applications, again at Q4. Those extra categories should be read as a classification artefact of how imaging research is now indexed: a growing share of radiology papers is about algorithms, image processing and machine assistance, and indexing services file that work partly under computing. They do not mean that HJR is a computer science journal. Its centre of gravity, by its own description and by its society ownership, is clinical imaging: diagnosis and image-guided therapy, practised and reported by radiologists.

Editorial Process: a Documented Double-Blind System

Many journal profiles have to guess at peer review from a single sentence on a website. This journal publishes its process in unusual detail, and the detail is worth recording because it is the strongest publicly verifiable evidence of how seriously the revived title is run. Once a manuscript has been submitted, the editor or associate editors first assess the material for compatibility with the journal’s guidelines — specifically including the anonymity of authors and institution in the files sent to reviewers, and the anonymity of patient data in text and images. If everything is in order, the relevant section editor sends the material to two reviewers of appropriate expertise. The process is double-blind in both directions: reviewers do not know the authors, and authors do not know the reviewers.

The timetable is also published. Reviewers are given one week to accept or decline an invitation, and a reviewer who declines is invited to suggest two alternatives. A reviewer who accepts is given three weeks to submit a report, working through the journal’s platform, with confidential comments to the editor kept separate from blinded comments to the author, and a recommendation of accept, decline, or revisions required. When both reports are in, the comments go to the authors, who return a revised manuscript with a detailed point-by-point response, a blinded clean copy, a blinded annotated copy showing the changes, an updated title page, and figures as individual TIFF files at 300 dpi. Minor revisions are due within two weeks, major revisions within four. If the two reviewers disagree — one for rejection, one for acceptance or revision — a third reviewer is invited, and in every case the editor is responsible for the final decision. A second round of review applies the same principles to the revised material, and an “in-house” rule completes the picture: editors, section editors and reviewers do not handle submissions from their own departments or institutions, and where a manuscript comes from a board member’s institution, impartial handling is arranged. Authors considering this journal should read that published process as the operative contract: anonymise the manuscript and the images, expect two blinded reports, and be ready to answer them point by point on a short clock.

Metrics and Indexing — Only What Can Be Attributed

This journal’s citation footprint is small, and this profile reports it at its real size rather than dressing it up. SCImago-derived listings give the journal an h-index of 4 — the figure also carried in the short profile previously on this page — and SJR values around 0.10 (0.103 in one current listing, 0.106 in another), with a best quartile of Q4 in its radiology categories. Those numbers describe a small, recently revived national-society journal, not a large international title, and they should be interpreted that way: a journal that restarted its indexed series in 2019 has had only a handful of years in which to accumulate citations, and SJR and h-index reward longevity as much as quality.

OpenAlex tells a complementary, cautionary story about database coverage. Resolving the journal by ISSN in OpenAlex (source S7407075437, fetched for this profile at checking time) returned a record that listed only six works and no citations — a figure that plainly undercounts a journal whose official site carries current and archived issues of full articles. The lesson, stated openly here, is that OpenAlex’s coverage of this title at checking time was fragmentary, so no OpenAlex works or citation total is quoted in this profile as a measure of the journal. Where a metric matters to you — for a promotion file, a thesis committee or a funder report — verify it in Scopus or on the journal’s own site at the moment you need it, and cite the source and the date, exactly as this profile has tried to do.

On other indexing questions this profile is equally explicit about the limits of what could be checked. A DOAJ listing could not be verified for this profile: the DOAJ search API returned HTTP 502 errors throughout the checking session, and under this site’s no-fabrication rule an erroring API is not evidence either way, so no DOAJ claim is made here. Article processing charges are likewise not stated: no APC figure was published in the sources actually fetched for this profile, so the journal’s charges, if any, are recorded here as not publicly disclosed in those sources — check the journal’s own submission pages, which are the authoritative place, before you submit. The journal’s platform does record that its sections are marked as indexed and peer reviewed in its own section policies, and its articles are openly readable on its OJS site; OpenAlex likewise flags the source as open access. That practical openness — a reader can open hjradiology.org and read the current issue — is verifiable in a way that a charge schedule, at checking time, was not.

How to Submit, and Who Should

Submissions run through the journal’s Open Journal Systems site at hjradiology.org, where prospective authors register, follow the journal’s guidelines and enter the double-blind process described above. Three practical points follow from the journal’s own published rules. First, anonymisation is checked before review begins, and it extends to images and patient data, so strip identifiers from scans, captions and file metadata at preparation stage, not after a query. Second, prepare figures to the standard the journal names — individual TIFF files at 300 dpi for revision stage — because radiology lives or dies by image quality and a pictorial essay with soft images makes its own argument badly. Third, respect the revision clocks: two weeks for minor, four for major corrections, with the journal warning that unreturned revisions lead to rejection and a restart of the process.

Who is this journal for? Most obviously, Greek radiologists and Greek imaging departments, for whom it is their society’s own title and a natural home for national audit, case series and clinical studies. Beyond Greece, its stated international openness and English language make it a plausible venue for imaging researchers — particularly in Europe and the Mediterranean — whose work is clinically pertinent but aimed at a specialist rather than a generalist readership: a well-documented case series, a pictorial essay that teaches a recognisable pattern, a protocol comparison from a real department. Authors who need a high citation metric for career reasons should read the metrics section above honestly and decide accordingly; authors who need a society-anchored, peer-reviewed, openly readable radiology journal with a documented review process will find that this title offers exactly that.

Similar Journals

Readers comparing titles in this space may also look at the European Journal of Radiology, the large Elsevier title that anchors the European general-radiology literature; Acta Radiologica, the long-running Scandinavian society journal, published by SAGE; Radiography, the Elsevier journal oriented towards radiographic practice and the radiographer profession; the Journal of Ultrasonography, devoted to ultrasound across clinical specialties; and Ultrasound, the SAGE journal associated with British medical ultrasound practice. Within Greece, the neighbouring society literature includes Archives of Hellenic Medicine (ISSN 1105-3992), the general medical journal of the Athens Medical Society, which is a different title from this one and is named here only to prevent the confusion that similar names invite. None of those journals is interchangeable with HJR: each has its own society, publisher and metrics, and this list is a starting point for comparison, not a claim of equivalence.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Hellenic Journal of Radiology the same journal that began in 1968? It is the revived edition of that society journal. The journal’s own About page states that it was first published in 1968 and describes the present English-language series as a revived edition; database coverage beginning in 2019 refers to the revived series.

What are its ISSNs? Print ISSN 2529-0568 and online ISSN 2654-1629. The Journals World stored record lists the pair in the opposite order; both numbers identify this journal alone.

Who publishes it? It is the official journal of the Hellenic Radiological Society. SCImago-derived listings name Zita Medical Management of Greece as publisher; the number “8702” in the older short profile on this page was a database artefact, not a publisher.

Is it peer reviewed? Yes, and unusually transparently: the journal publishes a step-by-step double-blind process, with two reviewers, set response times for reviewers and authors, a third reviewer where reports disagree, and a rule that editors do not handle submissions from their own institutions.

What are its metrics? SCImago-derived listings give an h-index of 4, SJR around 0.10 and a best quartile of Q4 in radiology categories, at checking time. OpenAlex coverage of the title was fragmentary at checking time and is not used here as a metric source. Treat all such figures as dated snapshots and re-check them at source when you need them.

Does it charge authors? No charge figure could be verified from the sources fetched for this profile, so none is stated. Check the journal’s own submission pages at hjradiology.org for the current position before submitting.

Is it listed in DOAJ? That could not be verified for this profile — the DOAJ search API was returning errors throughout the checking session — so this profile makes no claim about DOAJ listing in either direction.

Can authors outside Greece submit? The journal states that it is open to international authors and readers and publishes in English, so yes: submissions are invited internationally, under the same double-blind process and guidelines.