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Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 1053-2498Verify ISSN ↗1557-3117Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,606 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 7 / 597 | 98th | Q1 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 10 / 165 | 94th | Q1 |
| Transplantation | 4 / 55 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 32 / 409 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.6.
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation is Q1 in Surgery (rank 7 of 597), Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 10 of 165) and Q1 in Transplantation (rank 4 of 55), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 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 10.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.336, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 171.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,606 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 Heart and Lung Transplantation is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 1053-2498 and its online ISSN is 1557-3117.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation has an h-index of 185 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #354 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation published 2,099 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (54.1%), United Kingdom (6%) and Canada (5.8%). 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. 10 retracted papers are 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.
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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