The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

*The Annals of Thoracic Surgery*
Discipline	Pulmonary disease, surgery
Language	English
Edited by	Joanna Chikwe
Publication details
History	1965-present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	4.6 (2022)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Ann. Thorac. Surg.
Indexing;
ISSN	0003-4975 (print); 1552-6259 (web);
OCLC no.	1481414
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access;

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery is a peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1965. It covers the fields of thoracic diseases and surgery. It is the official journal of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association.

Article retraction practice

In 2004, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery published a study comparing two heart drugs. In January 2011, the journal retracted the study. The journal's editor-in-chief, L. Henry Edmunds, was contacted by Retraction Watch to get details about the cause of the article retraction. Edmunds replied that journalists and bloggers need not discuss article retraction and that it was sufficient for the public to know that the article had been retracted. Edmunds went on to say that the reasons why a journal might retract an article are personal in the same way that the reasons for a marital divorce are.^[1]

Current editorial board

Editor-in-chief

Joanna Chikwe, MD, FRCS, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

Past editors

L. Henry Edmunds Jr, MD, 2000-2015
Thomas B. Ferguson MD, 1984-2000
Herbert Sloan MD, 1969-1984
John D. Steele MD, 1964-1969

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References

^ Ben Goldacre (15 January 2011). "Now you see it, now you don't: why journals need to rethink retractions". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
^ "Editorial Board: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery".

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[1] Ben Goldacre (15 January 2011). "Now you see it, now you don't: why journals need to rethink retractions". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2011.

[2] "Editorial Board: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery".

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