Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery is published by Oxford University Press and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments and Congenital Heart Disease Studies, together about 36.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Interdisciplinary CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS) is a fully Open Access*, online-only journal that seeks to foster collaborative relationships across the multidisciplinary teams in Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery. ICVTS aims to publish cutting-edge interdisciplinary research from cardiovascular and thoracic surgeons, clinical perfusionists, cardiologists, anaesthetists, nurses, radiologists, pharmacists, computer scientists, healthcare engineers and beyond to drive development of cardio-thoracic surgery in practice, promote interdisciplinary knowledge, interaction and education related to surgery. ICVTS publishes a range of article types including: Original Articles Reviews: only on multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary subjects Brief Communications Case Reports Letters to the Editor Editorials Best evidence topics As a fully Open Access journal, ICVTS allows authors to gain high visibility for their research and to reach a broad readership in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. Read our Author Guidelines to learn more about submitting your article. *ICVTS converted to Open Access from 1 January 2022 and most content in the Journal published prior to this date was published under a standard licence. Articles published in ICVTS before 1 January 2022 under a standard licence are now ‘free to view’, and remain published under the standard licence signed at the time of publication; reuse of materials published prior to 1 January 2022 requires permission per the terms of the standard licence. Abstracting and Indexing Services ICVTS is covered by the following major indexing services: • PubMed® •PubMed Central® (PMC) • Clarivate’s Web of Science (Science Citation Index Expanded - SCI-E) • Scopus • DOAJ Online-only publication As an online-only publication, ICVTS provides market-leading functionality to all users; none of which can be offered in the print environment. Readers are guaranteed access to the most current versions of all articles at all times, and immediate access to the most recently published content via the Advance Access feature. On the fully responsive Oxford Academic platform, user experience will be enhanced with access to digital components of content, usage information and citation data, reference linking, and other vital metrics. Sign up to email alerts to receive notifications for articles accepted for publication and get the earliest access to content. Find out more about signing up for journal email alerts. Journal m

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

Editor-in-chief Peyman Sardari NiaPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 2, Germany 1, Italy 1, Netherlands 1, Switzerland 1 (7 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of SciencePMCPublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

3.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

3.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

3.1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.52LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.96LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

12OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

23OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.91OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

14.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

276LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

1Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

759,902Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Submission to first decision 2025

32 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to final decision 2025

58 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication

18 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 25 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISSN

2753-670X

Latest issue on the website

Volume 41, Issue 9 (September 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
• Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗DOAJ
• Editorial board ↗DOAJ
• Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ