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Thoracic Surgery Clinics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 1547-4127Verify ISSN ↗1558-5069Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$2,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 155 / 597 | 74th | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 79 / 165 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Thoracic Surgery Clinics is Q2 in Surgery (rank 155 of 597) and Q2 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 79 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Thoracic Surgery Clinics 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.613, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 62.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,700 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.
Thoracic Surgery Clinics is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 1547-4127 and its online ISSN is 1558-5069.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Thoracic Surgery Clinics has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 0.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #323 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Thoracic Surgery Clinics published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 90. 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 90 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (77%), Brazil (4.1%) and Canada (3.7%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (2.4 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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