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Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2008-5117Verify ISSN ↗2008-6830Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 268 / 409 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2016), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research is Q3 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 268 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.393, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 19.
Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research is published by Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 2008-5117 and its online ISSN is 2008-6830.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #236 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 62. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Iran (54%), India (18.5%) and Türkiye (4.2%). 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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