The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, and vascular disease published by Elsevier. It is the official journal of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Western Thoracic Surgical Association.

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Discipline	cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, pulmonary disease
Language	English
Edited by	Richard D. Weisel
Publication details
Former name(s)	Journal of Thoracic Surgery
History	1931–present
Publisher	Elsevier (United States and Canada)
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	5.209 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0022-5223 (print) 1097-685X (web)
Links
Journal homepage

History and Impact

The journal was established in 1931 as the Journal of Thoracic Surgery. The journal has the second highest impact factor of all cardiothoracic surgery journals. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2020 impact factor is 5.209, ranking it 21st out of 212 journals in the category "Surgery".^[1]