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Zeitschrift fur Herz-, Thorax- und Gefasschirurgie is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by D. Steinkopff-Verlag.
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ISSN 0930-9225Verify ISSN ↗1435-1277Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: D. Steinkopff-Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 157 / 165 | 5th | Q4 |
| Surgery | 567 / 597 | 5th | Q4 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 396 / 409 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Zeitschrift fur Herz-, Thorax- und Gefasschirurgie is Q4 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 157 of 165), Q4 in Surgery (rank 567 of 597) and Q4 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 396 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Zeitschrift fur Herz-, Thorax- und Gefasschirurgie is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 5th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.142, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Zeitschrift fur Herz-, Thorax- und Gefasschirurgie is published by D. Steinkopff-Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0930-9225 and its online ISSN is 1435-1277.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zeitschrift fur Herz-, Thorax- und Gefasschirurgie has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 160 Scopus journals in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.
Zeitschrift fur Herz-, Thorax- und Gefasschirurgie published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 85. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (92.9%), Switzerland (2.5%) and United Kingdom (1.1%). 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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