Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: impact and ranking
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery has a 2-year mean citedness of 1.68 in OpenAlex, which ranks #7,482 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 293. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.68 #7,482 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 293 #557 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.1M #326 of 18,122
- Works
- 42k 26.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: 1.68, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery #7,482 of 18,122 journals, in the top 41%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery?
OpenAlex gives Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery an h-index of 293: 293 of its papers have each been cited at least 293 times. That ranks #557 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery publish?
OpenAlex records 41,756 works in Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery from 1959 to 2026, cited 1,093,438 times in all, 26.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #326 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0022-5223
- In OpenAlex
- 1959 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$4,500.
- OpenAlex record
- S127437062
Journals ranked near Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7,224 | Obstetrics and Gynecology | 1.76 | 322 |
| 7,281 | Annals of Oncology | 1.74 | 386 |
| 7,323 | Technometrics | 1.73 | 494 |
| 7,591 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | 1.64 | 331 |
| 7,689 | Blood | 1.61 | 635 |
| 7,731 | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews | 1.60 | 600 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.