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Journal of Thoracic Disease is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by AME Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2072-1439Verify ISSN ↗2077-6624Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AME Publishing Company
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 91 / 165 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Thoracic Disease is Q3 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 91 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Thoracic Disease 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.608, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 105.
Journal of Thoracic Disease is published by AME Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2072-1439 and its online ISSN is 2077-6624.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Thoracic Disease has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 2.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 160 Scopus journals in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.
Journal of Thoracic Disease published 978 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 1,879. 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (58.5%), United States (12.6%) and Japan (7.1%). 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. 12 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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