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Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by West China Medical Publishers.
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ISSN 1007-4848Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: West China Medical Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 497 / 597 | 16th | Q4 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 145 / 165 | 12th | Q4 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 363 / 409 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Q4 in Surgery (rank 497 of 597), Q4 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 145 of 165) and Q4 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 363 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4, 16th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.129, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is published by West China Medical Publishers. Its ISSN is 1007-4848.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #558 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery published 8 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2013 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.
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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