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Thorax is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 0040-6376Verify ISSN ↗1468-3296Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 7 / 165 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1946–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.4.
Thorax is Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 7 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Thorax 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 14.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.479, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 270.
Thorax is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 0040-6376 and its online ISSN is 1468-3296.
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.
Thorax has an h-index of 322 and a 2-year mean of 3.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 160 Scopus journals in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.
Thorax published 260 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 303. 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 United Kingdom (30.6%), United States (11.8%) and China (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 16 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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