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European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
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ISSN 1010-7940Verify ISSN ↗1873-734XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Cost to publish: About US$3,699 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 60 / 597 | 90th | Q1 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 108 / 409 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 44 / 165 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery is Q1 in Surgery (rank 60 of 597), Q2 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 108 of 409) and Q2 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 44 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
European Journal of Cardio-thoracic 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.928, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 163.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,699 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.
European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery is published by European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. Its print ISSN is 1010-7940 and its online ISSN is 1873-734X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery has an h-index of 185 and a 2-year mean of 2.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery published 485 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 612. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (18.1%), Germany (12.7%) and Italy (9.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 26 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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