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Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Japanese Association for Coronary Artery Surgery.
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ISSN 1341-1098Verify ISSN ↗2186-1005Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Association for Coronary Artery Surgery
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 259 / 597 | 56th | Q2 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 231 / 409 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Gastroenterology | 103 / 176 | 41st | Q3 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 97 / 165 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 259 of 597), Q3 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 231 of 409) and Q3 in Gastroenterology (rank 103 of 176), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.381, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$753 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is published by Japanese Association for Coronary Artery Surgery. Its print ISSN is 1341-1098 and its online ISSN is 2186-1005.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 1.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #255 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 85. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (60.6%), China (11.1%) and United States (5.4%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 per 1,000 papers). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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