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Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI. Published by AME Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2664-3278Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AME Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 372 / 597 | 37th | Q3 |
| Physiology (medical) | 88 / 117 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery is Q3 in Surgery (rank 372 of 597) and Q3 in Physiology (medical) (rank 88 of 117), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.239, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery is published by AME Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 2664-3278.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #339 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 109. 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 53 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (40.6%), Canada (13.2%) and Italy (11.3%).
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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