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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery Template

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About the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery format

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery is a peer-reviewed journal published by BMC (BioMed Central), covering Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments, Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques. Over its lifetime it has published 6,128 papers, which have received 53,594 citations.

PublisherBMC (BioMed Central)
Reference styleNumbered (Vancouver)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 2023;12(3):45–58.

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Publishes research inAortic Disease and Treatment Approaches Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments Cardiac and Coronary Surgery Techniques Congenital Heart Disease Studies Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
ISSN1749-8090
Citation impact (2-yr)1.42
h-index78
i10-index1,582
Article processing charge$2,072
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
Journal websitewww.cardiothoracicsurgery.org
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Papers published in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery per year

204
2014
498
2015
168
2016
124
2017
134
2018
220
2019
335
2020
362
2021
344
2022
360
2023
702
2024
549
2025

Citation impact of Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery by publication year

4.1K
2014
3.2K
2015
3.2K
2016
2.5K
2017
2.4K
2018
3.2K
2019
4.1K
2020
3.7K
2021
2.4K
2022
1.8K
2023
2K
2024
615
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Home-based preoperative rehabilitation (prehab) to improve physical function and reduce hospital length of stay for frail patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and valve surgery

Iain Waite, Ranjit Deshpande, Max Baghai et al. · 26 Oct 2017

BACKGROUND: Evidence suggests that elective cardiac patients are at risk of functional and psychological deterioration in the time preceding surgery. This poses a risk to successful post-operative rehabilitation. This prospective one-group pre-test, post-test evaluation was designed to assess a clinical Pre-operative Rehabilitation (PREHAB) home-based exercise programme, to optimise pre-operative physical function and frailty in patients…

Airway trauma: a review on epidemiology, mechanisms of injury, diagnosis and treatment

Christos Prokakis, Efstratios Koletsis, Panagiotis Dedeilias et al. · 30 Jun 2014

Airway injuries are life threatening conditions. A very little number of patients suffering air injuries are transferred live at the hospital. The diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion based on the presence of non-specific for these injuries symptoms and signs and a thorough knowledge of the mechanisms of injury. Bronchoscopy and chest computed tomography…

IABP: history-evolution-pathophysiology-indications: what we need to know

Haralabos Parissis, Victoria Graham, Savvas Lampridis et al. · 4 Aug 2016

Treatment with the intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) is the most common form of mechanical support for the failing heart. Augmentation of diastolic pressure during balloon inflation contributes to the coronary circulation and the presystolic deflation of the balloon reduces the resistance to systolic output. Consequently, the myocardial work is reduced. The overall effect of the…

Atrial fibrillation following cardiac surgery: risk analysis and long-term survival

Sólveig Helgadóttir, Martin I. Sigurðsson, Inga Lára Ingvarsdóttir et al. · 19 Sep 2012

BACKGROUND: We studied potential risk factors for postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) in a large cohort of patients who underwent open-heart surgery, evaluating short- and long-term outcome, and we developed a risk-assessment model of POAF. METHODS: A retrospective study of 744 patients without prior history of AF who underwent CABG (n = 513), OPCAB (n =…

Strategies to prevent intraoperative lung injury during cardiopulmonary bypass

Efstratios Apostolakis, Efstratios Koletsis, Nikolaos G. Baikoussis et al. · 11 Jan 2010

During open heart surgery the influence of a series of factors such as cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), hypothermia, operation and anaesthesia, as well as medication and transfusion can cause a diffuse trauma in the lungs. This injury leads mostly to a postoperative interstitial pulmonary oedema and abnormal gas exchange. Substantial improvements in all of the above…

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What reference style does Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery use?
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery uses Numbered (Vancouver) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: 1. Smith A, Jones B, Lee C. A representative article title. Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 2023;12(3):45–58.
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