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Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer India.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0970-9134Verify ISSN ↗0973-7723Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer India
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 394 / 597 | 34th | Q3 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 317 / 409 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 131 / 165 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present (also 1991–1996, 1989, 1987, 1982–1985), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Q3 in Surgery (rank 394 of 597), Q4 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 317 of 409) and Q4 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 131 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.247, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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.
Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is published by Springer India. Its print ISSN is 0970-9134 and its online ISSN is 0973-7723.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #375 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery published 247 papers in 2025. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (58.4%), United States (8.1%) and United Kingdom (3.6%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 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.
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