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Journal of Chest Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
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ISSN 2765-1606Verify ISSN ↗2765-1614Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 285 / 597 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 246 / 409 | 39th | Q3 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 102 / 165 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Journal of Chest Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 285 of 597), Q3 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 246 of 409) and Q3 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 102 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Chest 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.402, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Chest Surgery is published by Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Its print ISSN is 2765-1606 and its online ISSN is 2765-1614.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Chest Surgery has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #264 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Chest Surgery published 131 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.
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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