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Journal of Thoracic Oncology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 33.4), 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 1556-0864Verify ISSN ↗1556-1380Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,100 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 2 / 165 | 99th | Q1 |
| Oncology | 11 / 428 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 33.4.
Journal of Thoracic Oncology is Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 2 of 165) and Q1 in Oncology (rank 11 of 428), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Thoracic Oncology 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 33.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 7.497, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 204.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,100 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 Oncology is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 1556-0864 and its online ISSN is 1556-1380.
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 Oncology has an h-index of 225 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 33.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 160 Scopus journals in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.
Journal of Thoracic Oncology published 2,653 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 4,617. 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 82 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (30.1%), China (11.7%) and Japan (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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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