JTCVS Techniques

JTCVS Techniques is an open access journal of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, published by Elsevier and produced by the editorial team behind The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. It appeared in March 2020 for case reports, operative technique papers and video material, and its 2025 impact factor is 2.4 against a CiteScore of 1.7.《JTCVS 技术》是美国胸外科协会的开放获取期刊，由 Elsevier 出版，编辑部与《胸心血管外科杂志》同一套人马。该刊 2020 年 3 月创刊，专门刊载病例报告、手术技术论文与视频材料，2025 年影响因子为 2.4，CiteScore 为 1.7。

Scope

• The stated aim is timely information for cardiothoracic surgeons, delivered through high-quality case reports, innovative techniques and cardiothoracic images in video and multimedia formats.刊物自述的目标是为心胸外科医师提供及时的信息，载体是高质量的病例报告、创新术式与心胸影像，形式以视频和多媒体为主。

• A large share of each issue goes to case reports, and the journal asks for accounts that carry a lesson, such as an unusual presentation or a complication that was rescued in the operating room.病例报告在各期占了很大比重，刊物要求来稿自带可借鉴的经验，例如罕见的表现，或在手术室里被成功挽回的并发症。

• Technique papers walk through a procedure step by step, often under a heading such as How I do it, and authors are encouraged to send video so that the sequence of moves can be inspected.技术类论文按步骤拆解术式，常以 How I do it 一类栏目出现，作者被鼓励随文提交视频，让每一个操作次序都可被检视。

• A recurring Video Atlas series carries narrated operative footage, with entries on fissureless thoracoscopic lobectomy and on robotic lingulectomy among the examples in recent volumes.常设的 Video Atlas 系列收录带解说的手术录像，近期卷次里就有不做叶间裂分离的胸腔镜肺叶切除与机器人舌段切除等条目。

• Adult cardiac work covers coronary revascularisation, aortic and mitral valve repair, and the reoperative problems that come with a growing population of patients who have had earlier operations.成人心脏方向覆盖冠状动脉血运重建、主动脉瓣与二尖瓣修复，以及再次手术带来的难题，这类患者随初次数量的累积而增多。

• Aortic papers range from acute type A dissection and arch reconstruction to thoracic endovascular repair, including hybrid and branched grafts and the complications that follow them.主动脉稿件从急性 A 型夹层与弓部重建，一直延伸到胸主动脉腔内修复，涉及杂交与分支支架，也涉及术后并发症。

• Heart and lung transplantation, ventricular assist devices and extracorporeal support appear regularly, with attention to cannulation strategy, right ventricular failure and the timing of a bridge.心肺移植、心室辅助装置与体外生命支持是常见题目，重点落在插管策略、右心衰竭与桥接时机的安排上。

• Congenital contributions deal with neonatal repair, single-ventricle palliation and complex reconstructions such as the Konno procedure or a double-outlet right ventricle planned on a printed model.先天方向涉及新生儿矫治、单心室分期手术，以及 Konno 手术、依靠打印模型规划的双出口右心室矫治等复杂重建。

• General thoracic coverage takes in lobectomy and segmentectomy, sleeve resection, oesophageal surgery, chest wall reconstruction and mediastinal tumours, with a steady stream of uniportal and subxiphoid approaches.普胸方向涵盖肺叶与肺段切除、袖状切除、食管手术、胸壁重建与纵隔肿瘤，单孔与剑突下入路的稿件持续不断。

• Minimally invasive and robotic surgery receives heavy coverage, from single-port lobectomy to robotic aortic valve replacement and root enlargement, often reported as a first-in-human or early-series experience.微创与机器人外科占的分量很重，从单孔肺叶切除到机器人主动脉瓣置换与根部加宽，多以首例或早期系列的形式报告。

• Perfusion practice is treated as a subject in its own right, with papers on circuit design, cardioplegia, cerebral protection and the training of perfusionists through simulation.灌注实践被当作独立题目对待，稿件涉及循环回路设计、心肌保护、脑保护，以及借助模拟训练灌注师的做法。

• Perioperative medicine has its own section on the board, which reflects an interest in anaesthetic management, enhanced recovery, postoperative critical care and patient safety systems.围手术期医学在编委会里单设方向，反映出刊物对麻醉管理、加速康复、术后重症监护与病人安全体系的关注。

• Imaging and three-dimensional printing run through the journal, whether as a template for localising a pulmonary nodule, a model for planning an intracardiac repair or a custom implant.影像与三维打印贯穿全刊，既用于肺结节定位模板，也用于规划心内矫治的模型，还用于定制植入物。

• Surgical education, simulation and digital tools are folded in as well, with papers on sternotomy models, virtual reality for trainees and machine learning used for intraoperative decision support.外科教育、模拟训练与数字工具同样在列，稿件涉及胸骨正中切开模型、面向受训者的虚拟现实，以及用于术中决策支持的机器学习。

• A standing ethics strand, guided by a dedicated ethics editor, publishes commentary on professionalism, informed consent and the history of the specialty.伦理是常设的一条线，由一位专职伦理编辑把关，刊发职业精神、知情同意与学科历史方面的评论。

History

• The journal opened in March 2020 as volume 1, launched by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery with Elsevier, in the same year that the association added a second open access title, JTCVS Open.该刊于 2020 年 3 月以第 1 卷面世，由美国胸外科协会与 Elsevier 联合推出，同年协会还添了另一份开放获取刊物 JTCVS Open。

• The aims page of the parent journal now lists three open access companions, JTCVS Open, JTCVS Techniques and JTCVS Structural and Endovascular, and describes JTCVS Techniques as coming from the same editorial team.母刊的宗旨页如今列出三份开放获取姊妹刊，即 JTCVS Open、JTCVS Techniques 与 JTCVS Structural and Endovascular，并写明《JTCVS 技术》出自同一支编辑队伍。

• Volume 1 carried 49 records in Crossref, and commentaries made up the largest block within them, beside short original papers and technique descriptions, a mix that later volumes have largely kept.第 1 卷在 Crossref 登记 49 条记录，其中评论类占最大一块，短篇原创论文与技术描述紧随其后，这一配比在此后各卷基本延续。

• Four volumes appeared in the first year, dated March, June, September and December, so the launch rhythm was quarterly.首年共出 4 卷，分别标注 3 月、6 月、9 月与 12 月，起步时的节奏是季刊。

• From 2021 the cadence rose to six volumes a year, issued in February, April, June, August, October and December, and each volume has since stood as a single issue.2021 年起节奏加快到每年 6 卷，出刊月份为 2 月、4 月、6 月、8 月、10 月与 12 月，此后每卷即为一期。

• Numbering has run without a break, from volume 1 in 2020 to volume 5 in 2021, volume 17 in 2023 and volume 29 in 2025, with volume 39 reached in October 2026.卷号一路连续，2020 年为第 1 卷，2021 年为第 5 卷，2023 年为第 17 卷，2025 年为第 29 卷，2026 年 10 月已到第 39 卷。

• Three adult collections dated 19 December 2021 gather work on the mitral valve, on the aorta and on mechanical circulatory support into separate bundles.三个成人专题合集标注的上线日期都是 2021 年 12 月 19 日，分别聚拢二尖瓣、主动脉与机械循环支持方面的稿件。

• A larger mitral valve repair collection followed in December 2023, edited by A. Marc Gillinov and Anelechi Anyanwu and drawing together operative papers from several years.规模更大的二尖瓣修复合集在 2023 年 12 月推出，由（A. Marc Gillinov）与（Anelechi Anyanwu）主编，把数年间的相关手术论文汇到一处。

• Copyright sits with the American Association for Thoracic Surgery while Elsevier publishes the title, which levies an article processing charge of 2,553 US dollars and releases every paper open access.版权归美国胸外科协会所有，Elsevier 负责出版，文章处理费为 2553 美元，全部论文以开放获取方式发布。

• Every article is gold open access, and the 2025 citation report counts the whole output under that label, with no subscription content behind it.全部论文均为金色开放获取，2025 年的引证报告把该刊所有文章都记在这一类目下，其后没有订阅内容。

• PubMed has indexed the journal from volume 1 in March 2020, and the full text is deposited in PubMed Central.PubMed 自 2020 年 3 月的第 1 卷起收录该刊，全文存入 PubMed Central。

• Clarivate lists the title in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, and both 2025 categories sit in the second quartile, cardiac and cardiovascular systems at 117 of 237 and surgery at 95 of 321.Clarivate 将该刊收入 Emerging Sources Citation Index，2025 年两个类目都落在第二四分位，心血管系统在 237 种期刊中排第 117，外科在 321 种中排第 95。

• The impact factor climbed from 1.7 in 2023 to 1.9 in 2024 and 2.4 in 2025, against a five-year figure of 2.2, while total citations reached 1,249 and the cited half-life stood at 3.4 years.影响因子从 2023 年的 1.7 升到 2024 年的 1.9，2025 年为 2.4，五年影响因子 2.2，总被引 1249 次，被引半衰期为 3.4 年。

• The journal reports a median of three days from submission to a first decision and fifteen days from acceptance to online publication, and the citation report lists 111 articles for 2025.刊物公布的中位数是投稿到首次决定 3 天，录用到线上出版 15 天，引证报告为 2025 年记下 111 篇论文。

Editors

• G. Alexander Patterson, a thoracic surgeon at Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, is editor-in-chief, and his listed interests are lung transplantation, lung cancer, emphysema surgery and oesophageal disorders.主编为（G. Alexander Patterson），任职于圣路易斯华盛顿大学医学院，研究方向列有肺移植、肺癌、肺气肿外科与食管疾病。

• He holds the same post at The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, so the two titles share an editor-in-chief and an editorial team.他同时担任《胸心血管外科杂志》的主编，两份刊物因此共用一位主编与一支编辑队伍。

• The board runs to 244 editors and members drawn from 11 countries or regions, 202 of them in the United States, 16 in Canada and 6 in Italy.编委会共有 244 位编辑与委员，来自 11 个国家或地区，其中美国 202 位，加拿大 16 位，意大利 6 位。

• Adult cardiac surgery has six associate editors, among them Pavan Atluri at Thomas Jefferson University, Dawn S. Hui in San Antonio and Subodh Verma in Toronto.成人心脏外科由 6 位副编辑坐镇，包括托马斯杰斐逊大学的（Pavan Atluri）、圣安东尼奥的（Dawn S. Hui）与多伦多的（Subodh Verma）。

• Congenital heart surgery has four, with Igor E. Konstantinov at the Mayo Clinic, Tara K. Karamlou at Akron Children's Hospital and Stephanie M. Fuller at Johns Hopkins among them.先天心脏病外科有 4 位，其中有梅奥诊所的（Igor E. Konstantinov）、阿克伦儿童医院的（Tara K. Karamlou）与约翰霍普金斯医院的（Stephanie M. Fuller）。

• General thoracic surgery is covered by five associate editors, from Bryan Burt and Robert B. Cameron at UCLA to Betty C. Tong at Duke and Isabelle Schmitt-Opitz in Zurich.普胸外科由 5 位副编辑负责，从加州大学洛杉矶分校的（Bryan Burt）与（Robert B. Cameron），到杜克大学的（Betty C. Tong）与苏黎世的（Isabelle Schmitt-Opitz）。

• Separate editors handle education, perioperative care, ethics and artificial intelligence, the last of these held by David Zurakowski of Harvard.教育、围手术期、伦理与人工智能各设专职编辑，人工智能一职由哈佛大学的（David Zurakowski）担任。

• Elliot L. Servais, a robotic and digital surgeon at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, is digital media editor and looks after the journal's video and multimedia content.数字媒体编辑为（Elliot L. Servais），在莱希医院与医学中心执业，专长机器人与数字外科，负责刊物的视频与多媒体内容。

• Statistical editors review methods before acceptance, with Stephen E. Fremes in Toronto, Paul A. Kurlansky at Columbia and J. Hunter Mehaffey at Virginia among the associate statistical editors.统计编辑在接收前复核方法学，副统计编辑包括多伦多的（Stephen E. Fremes）、哥伦比亚大学的（Paul A. Kurlansky）与弗吉尼亚大学的（J. Hunter Mehaffey）。

• Deputy statistical editors are listed as a separate tier, among them Mark F. Berry at Stanford and Marcelo Cerullo at Duke.副统计编辑另列一层，斯坦福的（Mark F. Berry）与杜克的（Marcelo Cerullo）都在其中。

• Feature editors, more than twenty of them, commission and steer the themed collections, which is how the mitral valve collection came to be edited by two named guest editors.二十余位专题编辑负责策划与推进主题合集，二尖瓣合集因此得以由两位署名客座编辑主持成辑。

• Manuscripts arrive through the Elsevier submission system, are assigned to the associate editor for the field and go out for external review, with the statistics checked separately.稿件经 Elsevier 的投稿系统进入，按方向分给相应副编辑，再送外部专家评议，统计部分另行复核。

• Recent issues carry technique papers from groups beyond the association's North American base, such as the Bonn-UFO approach to aortic root and intervalvular fibrous body reconstruction.近期各期收有北美之外团队的技术论文，波恩的 Bonn-UFO 主动脉根部与瓣间纤维体重建术即是一例。