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Journal of Cardiac Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0886-0440Verify ISSN ↗1540-8191Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$2,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 175 / 597 | 70th | Q2 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 187 / 409 | 54th | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 82 / 165 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 175 of 597), Q2 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 187 of 409) and Q2 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 82 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cardiac 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.413, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 71.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,700 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.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0886-0440 and its online ISSN is 1540-8191.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 0.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #440 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 1,042. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (26.5%), China (9.8%) and Japan (9.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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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