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General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2731-6203Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$2,290 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 514 / 597 | 13th | Q4 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 373 / 409 | 8th | Q4 |
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 Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases is Q4 in Surgery (rank 514 of 597) and Q4 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 373 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 13th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.148, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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 Cases is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2731-6203.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #475 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
General Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cases published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 105. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (99%), Italy (0.5%) and Germany (0.5%). 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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