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Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
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ISSN 0171-6425Verify ISSN ↗1439-1902Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 182 / 597 | 69th | Q2 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 193 / 409 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 83 / 165 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon is Q2 in Surgery (rank 182 of 597), Q2 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 193 of 409) and Q2 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 83 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.428, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 61.
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0171-6425 and its online ISSN is 1439-1902.
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.
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 0.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #454 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon published 373 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 544. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (54.9%), China (8.2%) and Türkiye (8.2%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 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.
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