Journals

International Journal of Surgery (IJS)

Founded: 2003, why publish in the IJS?

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Riaz Agha, London

Editorial Board: our people

ISSN: 1743-9191

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Frequency: Monthly

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Access: Open access

Article Processing Charge (APC):

The APC for this journal is USD $3,750 (research and reviews), USD $1,875 (letters and editorials).
We provide discounts in line with the research4life programme – Group A countries pay no APC and Group B countries get a 50% discount.

Peer-review: double blind

Acceptance rate: 16.6% (for research and review articles)

Guide for Authors: Available here.

Author Gateway: submit your paper.

Prize: The IJS Executive Committee and Editorial Board annually awards the Harold Ellis Prize since 2004.

Affiliations:

Impact:

Impact Factor 2022: 15.300, ranked 2/212 (2021: 13.4, ranked 5/212)
CiteScore 2022: 23.9, ranked 14/830 in Medicine (2021: 15.7, ranked 3/469 in Surgery)
SJR 2022: 2.597
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2022: 9.203

Indexing/archiving:

AcademicPub
Cancerlit
ClinicalKey
CLOCKSS
DANS (for all published datasets sent to Mendeley)
EBSCO
EMBASE
Google Scholar
MEDLINE
National Library of the Netherlands (e-Depot)
Portico
PubMed
PubMed Central (selected articles)
ProQuest
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
ScienceDirect (and archived via LexisNexis)
Scisearch
Scopus
SciVal
The British Library
Web of Science

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International Journal of Surgery: Case Reports (IJSCR)

Founded: 2010, IJSCR was Elsevier’s first gold open access journal

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Riaz Agha, London

ISSN: 2210-2612

Publisher: Elsevier

Frequency: Monthly

Access: Open Access

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Peer-review: double blind

Guide for Authors: Available here.

Author Gateway: submit your paper.

Patient consent form – download it here IJSPG – Patient Consent Form.

Prize: The IJSCR Executive Committee and Editorial Board annually awards the Thomas E. Starzl Prize since 20013.

Article Processing Charge (APC):

The open access publication fee for this journal is USD $1,800, excluding taxes.
Authors from Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia or Turkey will pay a fee of USD 650.
We provide discounts in line with the research4life programme – Group A countries pay no APC and Group B countries get a 50% discount.

Impact:

Impact Factor 2022: 0.6
CiteScore 2022 1.0, ranked 325/495 (2021: 0.9, ranked 316/469)
SJR 2022: 0.193
SNIP 2022: 0.580

Indexing/archiving:

AcademicPub
Academic Search (EBSCO)
Cancerlit
ClinicalKey
CLOCKSS
DANS (for all published datasets sent to Mendeley)
EMBASE
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Google Scholar
National Library of the Netherlands (e-Depot)
Portico
ProQuest
PubMed
PubMed Central (PMC)
ScienceDirect (and archived via LexisNexis)
SCOPUS
The British Library
Web of Science

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Annals of Medicine and Surgery (AMS)

Founded: 2012

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Riaz Agha, London, UK

ISSN: 2049-0801

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Frequency: Monthly

Access: Open access

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Peer-review: double blind

Acceptance rate: 62.3% (for research and review articles)

Guide for Authors: Available here.

Author Gateway: submit your paper.

Article Processing Charge (APC):

The APC for this journal is USD $1,950 for full-length articles and USD $1,350 for other articles, excluding taxes.
We provide discounts in line with the research4life programme – Group A countries pay no APC and Group B countries get a 50% discount.

Impact:

Impact Factor 2022: 1.7
CiteScore 2022: 1.7, ranked 269/495 (2021: 1.4, ranked 266/469)
SJR 2021: 0.373
SNIP 2021: 0.965

Indexing/archiving:

AcademicPub
Cancerlit
ClinicalKey
CLOCKSS
DANS (for all published datasets sent to Mendeley)
EMBASE
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Google Scholar
MEDLINE®
National Library of the Netherlands (e-Depot)
Portico
PubMed
PubMed Central (PMC)
ProQuest
SciSearch
The British Library

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International Journal of Surgery: Open (IJSO)

Founded: 2015

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Riaz Agha, London

ISSN: 2405-8572

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Frequency: Bimonthly (six issues a year)

Access: Open access

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Peer-review: double blind

Acceptance rate: 40.6% (for research and review articles)

Guide for Authors: Available here.

Author Gateway: submit your paper.

Article Processing Charge (APC): USD $1,700, excluding taxes for original research articles, reviews and perspectives and USD $1,300 for short articles (e.g. letters).
We provide discounts in line with the research4life programme – Group A countries pay no APC and Group B countries get a 50% discount.

Impact:

Impact Factor 2022: 1.0
CiteScore 2022: 1.5, ranked 282/495 (2021 1.1, ranked 296/469)
SJR 2022: 0.256
SNIP 2022: 0.746

Indexing/archiving:

ClinicalKey
CLOCKSS
DANS (for all published datasets sent to Mendeley)
EBSCO
EMBASE
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Google Scholar
National Library of the Netherlands (e-Depot)
Portico
ProQuest
ScienceDirect (and archived via LexisNexis)
SciVal
SCOPUS
The British Library

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International Journal of Surgery: Chinese Edition

Founded: 2015

Closed 2018

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Joseph Lau, Hong Kong

Publisher: Elsevier

Frequency: annual

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

The International Journal of Surgery Chinese Edition has been produced by the IJS with Professor Joseph W.Y. Lau (Shatin, Hong Kong) and Professor Xaio-ping Chen (Wuhan, China) as editors of the Edition, both of whom are Editors of the International Journal of Surgery.

The Chinese authors of these editions have translated their manuscripts into Mandarin and we would like to thank them for their time. The manuscripts were edited by Professors Lau and Chen. All papers are republications of articles already published in the English language version of the Journal. The English Language versions are available via links in this Edition.

International Journal of Surgery: Oncology (IJSOnc)

Founded: 2016

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Riaz Agha, London

ISSN: 2471-3864

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Frequency: Monthly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Acceptance rate: 92.3%

Guide for Authors: Available here.

Author Gateway: submit your paper.

Licence to Publish: available here

Article Processing Charge (APC): USD $1,000 for full articles and USD $1300 for short articles.
We provide discounts in line with the research4life programme – Group A countries pay no APC and Group B countries get a 50% discount.

Impact:

Impact Factor 2022: 0.3

Indexing/archiving:

China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)
CLOCKSS
EBSCO
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Ex Libris ltd
Google Scholar
Hinari
Journal Guide
Labtiva Inc.
Portico
ProQuest
SageKnowledge
Semper Tool
TDNet
Web of Science

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International Journal of Surgery: Protocols (IJSP)

Founded: 2016

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Riaz Agha, London, UK

ISSN: 2468-3574

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Frequency: Bimonthly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Acceptance rate: 81.8% (for protocols)

Affiliations: National Research Collaborative (NRC)

Guide for Authors: Available here.

Author Gateway: submit your paper.

Article Processing Charge (APC): USD $1000 for full articles and USD $400 for short articles
We provide discounts in line with the research4life programme – Group A countries pay no APC and Group B countries get a 50% discount.

Impact:

Impact Factor 2022: 0.9
CiteScore 2021: 1.6, ranked 252/469 in Surgery
SJR 2022: 0.212
SNIP 2022: 0.933

Indexing/archiving:

ClinicalKey
CLOCKSS
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Google Scholar
National Library of the Netherlands (e-Depot)
Portico
PubMed Central
PubMed
ScienceDirect (and archived via LexisNexis)
SCOPUS

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International Journal of Surgery: Global Health (IJSGH)

Founded: 2018

Editor-in-Chief: Dr Riaz Agha, London

ISSN: 2576-3342

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Frequency: Monthly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Acceptance rate: 93.2% (for research and review articles)

Guide for Authors: Available here.

Author Gateway: submit your paper.

Licence to Publish: available here.

Article Processing Charge (APC):
USD $1,000 for Tier 1 manuscripts (Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Experimental Research)
USD $500 for Tier 2 manuscripts (Letters and Editorials).
We provide discounts in line with the research4life programme – Group A countries pay no APC and Group B countries get a 50% discount.

Indexing/archiving:

China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)
CLOCKSS
Portico
EBSCO
Ex Libris ltd
Google Scholar
Hinari
Journal Guide
Labtiva Inc.
ProQuest
SageKnowledge
Semper Tool
TDNet

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Orthoplastic Surgery

Founded: 2020

Editor-in-Chief: Professor Scott Levin

ISSN: 2666-769X

Publisher: Elsevier

Frequency: Quarterly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Guide for Authors: Available here.

Author Gateway: submit your paper.

Article Processing Charge (APC):
Full length articles = $1,700
Short articles = $1,000
We provide discounts in line with the research4life programme – Group A countries pay no APC and Group B countries get a 50% discount.

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IJS Short Reports (IJSSR) and International Journal of Digital Health (IJDH) have been discontinued from 2024.

The archives can be accessed here:

IJSSR: https://journals.lww.com/ijsshortreports/Pages/default.aspx

IJDH: https://journals.lww.com/ijdigitalhealth/Pages/default.aspx