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Shanghai Chest

AME Publishing Company · Hong Kong

ISSN2521-3768

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.151

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.257

Total Worksi

463

Total Citationsi

799

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.48

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine; Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine; Surgery.

General Information

Country / RegionHong Kong

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 18 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications463

Publisher OrgAME Publishing Company

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer ReviewPeer Review

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

7/11 · 64%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

AME Publishing Company

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2521-3768

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

Peer Review

❌

Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2019

118

2020

214

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineQ4

Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineQ4

SurgeryQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Cardiology and Cardiovascular MedicineSurgeryPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Lung Cancer Diagnosis and TreatmentPleural and Pulmonary DiseasesTracheal and airway disordersEsophageal and GI PathologyAirway Management and Intubation Techniques

Frequently asked questions about Shanghai Chest

Is Shanghai Chest a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Shanghai Chest: it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Shanghai Chest?

Shanghai Chest is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.151.

Is Shanghai Chest indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Shanghai Chest is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Shanghai Chest?