The European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, abbreviated Eur J Cardiothorac Surg, is an academic journal, principally covering topics pertaining to cardiac surgery and thoracic surgery. The current Editor-in-Chief is Mario Gaudino, the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery (II) at Weill Cornell Medical College.
The journal has an editorial board of 28, with 13 associate editors, 8 assistant editors, a managing editor, an editorial manager, and an editor-in-chief.
Articles in the journal become open access one year after publication. The journal is abstracted and indexed by: