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Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10), 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 0022-5223Verify ISSN ↗1097-685XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 10 / 597 | 98th | Q1 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 12 / 165 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 38 / 409 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1959–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Q1 in Surgery (rank 10 of 597), Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 12 of 165) and Q1 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 38 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular 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 10, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.817, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 234.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,500 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 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0022-5223 and its online ISSN is 1097-685X.
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 Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has an h-index of 295 and a 2-year mean of 1.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #180 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery published 540 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 2,045. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (53.1%), Canada (10.1%) and China (9.9%). 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. 32 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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