The Annals of Thoracic Surgery: impact and ranking
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.98 in OpenAlex, which ranks #4,089 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 278. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.98 #4,089 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 278 #642 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.3M #261 of 18,122
- Works
- 48k 26.5 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The Annals of Thoracic 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 The Annals of Thoracic Surgery: 2.98, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The Annals of Thoracic Surgery #4,089 of 18,122 journals, in the top 23%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery?
OpenAlex gives The Annals of Thoracic Surgery an h-index of 278: 278 of its papers have each been cited at least 278 times. That ranks #642 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The Annals of Thoracic Surgery publish?
OpenAlex records 48,177 works in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery from 1840 to 2026, cited 1,277,729 times in all, 26.5 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #261 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0003-4975
- In OpenAlex
- 1840 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The Annals of Thoracic Surgery as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,200.
- OpenAlex record
- S144860794
Journals ranked near The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The Annals of Thoracic Surgery on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,038 | The Journal of Physical Chemistry A | 2.99 | 284 |
| 4,041 | Chemical Physics Letters | 2.99 | 343 |
| 4,079 | Biology of Reproduction | 2.98 | 268 |
| 4,112 | Anesthesia & Analgesia | 2.97 | 299 |
| 4,133 | FEBS Letters | 2.96 | 392 |
| 4,145 | Magnetic Resonance in Medicine | 2.95 | 325 |
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.