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Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by W.B. Saunders.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1043-0679Verify ISSN ↗1532-9488Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,610 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 25 / 597 | 95th | Q1 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 27 / 165 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 72 / 409 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is Q1 in Surgery (rank 25 of 597), Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 27 of 165) and Q1 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 72 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Seminars in 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 7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.842, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,610 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.
Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 1043-0679 and its online ISSN is 1532-9488.
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.
Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has an h-index of 75 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #280 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 420. 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 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (69.7%), Canada (7.3%) and Italy (7%). 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. 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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