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New Impact Factor for Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery: 0.3

We are pleased to announce that Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) has attained its latest impact factor for the 2023 citation year: 0.3.

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery 2023 CiteScore Released: 0.4

We are pleased to announce that the Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) has received its 2023 CiteScore: 0.4, ranking 455 out of 551 journals in the Surgery category.

Furthermore, we are delighted to highlight the remarkable achievements made by all AME journals in the CiteScore ranking.

Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2024)

In 2024, many VATS authors make outstanding contributions to our journal. Their articles published with us have received very well feedback in the field and stimulate a lot of discussions and new insights among the peers.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields, with a brief interview of their unique perspective and insightful view as authors.

Reviewer of the Month (2024)

In 2024, VATS reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

VATS Annual Report (2023)

Till December 31, 2023, VATS has a total of 77 Editorial Board Members from 14 countries. 46 articles have been published last year with 21 Review Article, 7 Surgical Technique, 7 Editorial Commentary, 4 Case Report, 4 Editorial and 3 Original Article. Corresponding authors came from 15 countries, with mostly from USA, Japan and Italy. According to the Google Analytics, VATS drew the attention of 32,440 visitors and accumulated 90,126 pageviews in the past year, with the majority coming from the USA, followed by China, UK, India and Canada. For a comprehensive overview, please refer to the detailed report below.

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Case Report

Abdominal wall pseudohernia following video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a case report and literature review

Shiyu Shen, Ziyi He, Guangbin Li, Xinyu Jia, Zihao Lu, Yichao Shi, Jianhong Pu, Haitao Huang

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

PDF Full Text (338) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Case Report

Surgical management of extensive diaphragmatic and pleural thoracic endometriosis: a case report

Zeuz Islas, William Carroway, Jeffrey B. Velotta

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

PDF Full Text (Video) (222) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Case Report

A robotic approach to purulent pericarditis: a case report

Weston G. Andrews, Benjamin D. Seadler, Tianzeng Chen, Paul L. Linsky

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

PDF Full Text (Video) (157) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Case Report

Pericardial cyst as a cause of recurrent hiccups: a case report

Aly Valji, Azim Valji, Simon Turner

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

PDF Full Text (112) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Surgical Technique

Surgical techniques for securing the surgical field in thoracoscopic anterior mediastinal tumor resection

Jun Suzuki, Satoshi Shiono, Hikaru Watanabe, Satoshi Takamori, Kazumasa Hoshijima, Kohei Abe, Tetsuro Uchida

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

PDF Full Text (Video) (185) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Surgical Technique

Robotic-assisted excision of an infected duplication cyst of the esophagus

Jessica E. Wahi, Navid Ajabshir, Fernando M. Safdie

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

PDF Full Text (Video) (214) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Video-assisted versus robot-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy: style versus substance

Hai Viet-Nguyen Salfity, Clayton Agler, Lana Y. Schumacher-Beal, DuyKhanh P. Ceppa

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

PDF Full Text (136) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Approaching lobectomy in a VIOLET tinted world: video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) vs. open thoracotomy for lobectomy

Shubham Gulati, Brian Housman, Raja Flores

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

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Review Article

“Trimming the VAT(S)”: maximizing value delivery in thoracoscopic lobectomy—a narrative review

Gordon Buduhan

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

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Review Article

Techniques for intraoperative identification and confirmation of segmental bronchus in minimally invasive segmentectomy

María Teresa Gómez-Hernández, Clara Forcada, Cristina Rivas, Marta Fuentes, Marcelo F. Jiménez

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 September 2024)

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Review Article

Minimally invasive thoracoscopic approach to pulmonary metastasectomy for esophageal cancer: a narrative review

Shuyin Liang, Ronald Kirshner, Neal Chuang

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

PDF Full Text (372) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Pulmonary metastasectomy in pediatric patients: a narrative review

Carlos Theodore Huerta, Cindy Rodriguez, Sandeep Sainathan, Eduardo A. Perez

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Review Article

Narrative review on minimally invasive metastasectomy for head and neck malignancies

Aitua C. Salami, Richard Mendez, Amit Bhargava

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Review Article

Minimally invasive metastasectomy for skin and soft tissue malignancies: sarcomas, melanoma, and breast cancer: a narrative review

Benjamin A. Palleiko, Mark W. Maxfield

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Review Article

A narrative review of minimally invasive pulmonary metastasectomy for colorectal cancer

Megha K. Sheth, Takashi Harano

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Review Article

Image-guided and bronchoscopic localization techniques used to facilitate minimally invasive pulmonary metastasectomies

Alan Wang, Graeme M. Rosenberg, Gavitt A. Woodard, Andrew Dhanasopon, Brooks V. Udelsman

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Review Article

The role and benefit of minimally invasive repeat pulmonary metastasectomy: a narrative review

Narendran Balasubbiah, Padungkiat Tangpiroontham

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Review Article

The role of minimally invasive sublobar resection in pulmonary metastasectomy: a narrative review

Alejandra de la Fuente Añó, Inés Luque Vázquez, María Rodríguez

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Review Article

Simultaneous minimally invasive bilateral pulmonary metastasectomy: a narrative review

Shinji Yuhara, Tadasu Kohno

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Review Article

Hybrid approaches to pulmonary metastasectomy: a narrative review

Jesyl O. Gagto, Jose Luis J. Danguilan, Jose Miguel C. Callueng, Dante Allan M. Concejero

Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery

2024;

(30 June 2024)

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Surgical Technique

Surgical technique for subxiphoid-subcostal bilateral thoracoscopic thymectomy: how we do it

Madhuri Rao, Niveditha Jagadesh, Rafael Andrade

Published online: 16 August 2024

Case Report

Thoracoscopic segmentectomy for “black lung”: a case report

Jun Suzuki, Satoshi Shiono, Hikaru Watanabe, Kaito Sato, Kazumasa Hoshijima, Kohei Abe, Tetsuro Uchida

Published online: 02 August 2024

Surgical Technique

A novel robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) technique: dual- portal RATS (DRATS) as a reduced-port RATS

Hikaru Watanabe, Hiroki Ebana, Naoki Kanauchi, Jun Suzuki, Kazumasa Hoshijima, Satoshi Shiono

Published online: 26 June 2024

Surgical Technique

Uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: bleeding control with additional port surgical technique

Rafael Ribeiro Barcelos, Ricardo Oliveira, Paula Ugalde Figueroa

Published online: 22 May 2024

Editorial Commentary

The best strategy to control pain after thoracic surgery: multimodal strategy against pain

Alessandro Rizzi, Federico Raveglia, Marco Scarci, Ugo Cioffi, Alessandro Baisi

Published online: 30 December 2019

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Review Article

Complex, high-risk thoracic surgery—does risk always outweigh the benefit or can we manage it safely?

Joanne Frances Irons, Guillermo Martinez

Published online: 19 September 2017

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Review Article

Re-operative surgery after paraesophageal hernia repair: narrative review

Monisha Sudarshan, Siva Raja

Published online: 15 March 2022

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Review Article

The ethics of robotic surgical systems is a conversation of informed consent

Sean C. Wightman, Elizabeth A. David, Scott M. Atay, Anthony W. Kim, Peter Angelos

Published online: 15 September 2020

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Surgical Technique

Video-assisted thoracic surgery tunnel technique: an alternative fissureless approach for anatomical lung resections

Herbert Decaluwé

Published online: 18 August 2017

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Perspective

Robotic is better than VATS? Ten good reasons to prefer robotic versus manual VATS surgery in lung cancer patients

Michela Solinas, Pierluigi Novellis, Giulia Veronesi

Published online: 18 September 2017

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Review Article

Anesthesia considerations for robotic thoracic surgery

Alexandra Ruan, Vivek Kulkarni

Published online: 15 March 2020

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Review Article

Clinical history and surgical management of parapneumonic empyema what is the role of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)?

Duilio Divisi, Francesca Gabriele, Mirko Barone, Gino Zaccagna, William Di Francescantonio, Roberto Crisci

Published online: 21 September 2017

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Review Article

Non-intubated anesthetic techniques for thoracic surgery

Emma Louise Coley, Joanne Frances Irons

Published online: 10 October 2017

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Review Article

Left-sided video-assisted thoracic surgery thymectomy

Tommaso Claudio Mineo, Francesco Sellitri, Vincenzo Ambrogi

Published online: 03 June 2017

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Review Article

VATS-lymph node dissection, staging and restaging in advanced malignancy/the Munich experience

Andreas Hiebinger, Dietmar Öfner-Velano, Johannes Bodner

Published online: 23 July 2018

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Review Article

Right sided VATS thymectomy: “current standards of extended thymectomy for myasthenia gravis”

Erkan Kaba, Tugba Cosgun, Kemal Ayalp, Mazen Rasmi Alomari, Alper Toker

Published online: 23 May 2017

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Review Article

A glimpse of history: non-intubated thoracic surgery

Alessandro Tamburrini, Tommaso Claudio Mineo

Published online: 06 September 2017

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Review Article

Video-assisted thoracic surgery for esophagectomy: evolution and prosperity

Wei Guo, Jie Xiang, Su Yang, Hecheng Li

Published online: 06 January 2017

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Review Article

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in the management of malignant pleural disease

Giulia Luciano, David A. Waller

Published online: 06 September 2018

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Editorial

Risk factors and 90-day mortality after video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy for lung cancer: the discussion is still open

Giovanna Rizzardi, Luigi Bortolotti

Published online: 15 January 2018

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Surgical Technique

Robotic assisted VATS lobectomy for loco-regionally advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Simon R. Turner, M. Jawad Latif, Bernard J. Park

Published online: 27 February 2017

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Editorial

Positive margins after lung cancer surgery: is postoperative radiotherapy worth the burn?

Basheer Elsolh, Alexander Adibfar, Vaibhav Gupta, Elliot Wakeam

Published online: 10 May 2018

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Review Article

Role, benefits and limitations of non-intubated anesthesia in thoracic surgery

Ya-Jung Cheng

Published online: 13 September 2017

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Review Article

Diaphragmatic plication: current evidence and techniques in the management of the elevated hemidiaphragm

Aidan Gilbert, Benjamin Wei

Published online: 09 May 2023

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Surgical Technique

Robotic assisted VATS lobectomy for loco-regionally advanced non-small cell lung cancer

Simon R. Turner, M. Jawad Latif, Bernard J. Park

Editorial

Understanding the impact of neoadjuvant chemoradiation on health-related quality of life in esophageal cancer

Tara R. Semenkovich, Bryan F. Meyers

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Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access electronic journal reporting the cutting-edge findings and application of video-assisted thoracic surgery, including but not limited to biopsy, esophagus surgery (esophagectomy), hiatal hernia repair, lung surgery, procedures to remove excess fluid or air from the area around the lungs, surgery to relieve excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis), surgery to relieve gastroesophageal reflux disease, thymus gland removal surgery (thymectomy). The techniques of VATS include but are not be limited to multiportal VATS, uniportal VATS, robotic VATS and tubeless VATS.