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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 1863-6705Verify ISSN ↗1863-6713Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$2,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 212 / 597 | 64th | Q2 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 210 / 409 | 48th | Q3 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 89 / 165 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 212 of 597), Q3 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 210 of 409) and Q3 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 89 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
General 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.452, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 53.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,490 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.
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 1863-6705 and its online ISSN is 1863-6713.
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.
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #231 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery published 130 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 273. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (59.5%), Pakistan (17.5%) and Türkiye (6%). 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. 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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