''Annals of Thoracic Medicine'' is a

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published by the Saudi Thoracic Society through an agreement with the

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brand

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. The journal publishes articles on topics within thoracic medicine, which it defines as "pulmonology, cardiology, thoracic surgery, transplantation, sleep and breathing, airways disease, and more." All articles are

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and are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. The journal was started as a semi-annual publication in 2005 and is now published quarterly. ''Annals of Thoracic Medicine'' is indexed with

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, EMBASE, EMR Index Medicus,

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, and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Annals Of Thoracic Medicine Open access journals Quarterly journals English-language journals Academic journals established in 2006 Medknow Publications academic journals Pulmonology journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies