The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, abbreviated J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. , Is a scientific journal published by Elsevier on behalf of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Western Thoracic Surgical Association. The magazine was founded in 1931 under the name The Journal of Thoracic Surgery. In 1959, the extension was made to the current name; The magazine is published twelve issues a year. There are published works that deal with the surgery of the heart and lungs.

The Impact Factor was in 2012 at 3,526. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the Journal with this impact factor in the category of surgery at 14 out of 199 journals in the category respiratory system in ninth place out of 50 journals and in the category of cardiovascular disease in 34 out of 124 magazines out.