Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery
AME Publishing Company · Hong Kong · Est. 2019
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Aims & Scope
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery (CCTS) is an international peer-reviewed journal providing high-quality researches and information related to challenging issues on thoracic surgeries with an aim to improve current diagnosis and treatment of thoracic diseases. The journal focuses on current challenges, controversial issues and intractable situation of thoracic surgeries for pulmonary, tracheal, mediastinal, esophageal, and chest-wall diseases. It also dabbles in related specialties such as pulmonary medicine, transplantation, anesthesiology, pathology, imaging, biology, critical care medicine and nursing.
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Frequently asked questions about Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery
Is Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery a predatory journal?
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What is the impact factor of Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery?
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. As an open alternative, its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3.
Is Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.
What is the aims and scope of Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery?
Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery (CCTS) is an international peer-reviewed journal providing high-quality researches and information related to challenging issues on thoracic surgeries with an aim to improve current diagnosis and treatment of thoracic diseases. The journal focuses on current challenges, controversial issues and intractable situation of thoracic surgeries for pulmonary, tracheal, mediastinal, esophageal, and chest-wall diseases. It also dabbles in related specialties such as pulmonary medicine, transplantation, anesthesiology, pathology, imaging, biology, critical care med
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