The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, abbreviated Ann. Thorac. Surg. , Is a scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association. The magazine is published twelve issues a year. There are published works that deal with the surgery for heart and lungs.

The Impact Factor was in 2012 at 3,454. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the Journal with this impact factor in the category of surgery at 15 out of 199 journals in the category respiratory system ranks eleventh out of 50 journals and in the category of cardiovascular disease in 36 out of 124 magazines out.