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African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by South African Medical Association.
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ISSN 2617-0191Verify ISSN ↗2617-0205Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Medical Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 60 / 122 | 51st | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 103 / 165 | 37th | Q3 |
| Infectious Diseases | 242 / 361 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine is Q2 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 60 of 122), Q3 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 103 of 165) and Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 242 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.248, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine is published by South African Medical Association. Its print ISSN is 2617-0191 and its online ISSN is 2617-0205.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.78 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 117 Scopus journals in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine.
African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 53. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (71.2%), India (6.1%) and United Kingdom (4.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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