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Annals of Thoracic Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 1817-1737Verify ISSN ↗1998-3557Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 118 / 597 | 80th | Q1 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 146 / 409 | 64th | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 65 / 165 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Annals of Thoracic Medicine is Q1 in Surgery (rank 118 of 597), Q2 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 146 of 409) and Q2 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 65 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Annals of Thoracic Medicine 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.698, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 50.
Annals of Thoracic Medicine is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 1817-1737 and its online ISSN is 1998-3557.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Annals of Thoracic Medicine has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #131 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Annals of Thoracic Medicine published 35 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 50. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (27%), China (18.4%) and Türkiye (11.5%).
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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