International Journal of Surgery (IJS)

Founded: 2003

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

ISSN: 1743-9191

Publisher: Elsevier

Frequency: Monthly

Access: Hybrid with both subscription and open access options available. Furthermore, there is a  delayed open archive two years following publication.

Peer-review: double blind

Affiliations:

• New York Surgical Society
• The Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT)
• Chinese Chapter of the International Hepatopancreatobiliary Association (IHPBA)
• MGB-OAGB International Club

Impact:

• 2-year Impact Factor 2017: 2.693
• 5-year Impact Factor 2017: 2.728
• Google 2016 H5 index: 33 and H5 Median: 48
• CiteScore 2017: 2.55 (35/385)
• SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2017: 0.834
• Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2017: 1.893

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

Editor-in-Chief: Professor David Rosin, Barbados

ISSN: 2210-2612

Publisher: Elsevier

Frequency: Monthly

Access: Open Access

Peer-review: double blind

Impact:

• CiteScore 2017 – 0.66 (247/385 in surgery)
• SJR 2017 – 0.260
• SNIP 2017 – 0.651
• Google 2016 H5 index: 18 and H5 Median: 20

Indexing/archiving: 

• AcademicPub
• Cancerlit
• ClinicalKey
• CLOCKSS
• DANS (for all published datasets sent to Mendeley)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• 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

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Annals of Medicine and Surgery (AMS)

Founded: 2012

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

ISSN: 2049-0801

Publisher: Elsevier

Frequency: Monthly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Impact:

• CiteScore 2017 – 1.31 (146/385 in surgery)
• SJR 2017 – 0.492
• SNIP 2017 – 0.855

Indexing/archiving:

• AcademicPub
• Cancerlit
• ClinicalKey
• CLOCKSS
• DANS (for all published datasets sent to Mendeley)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• EMBASE
• Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
• Google Scholar
• Medline
• National Library of the Netherlands (e-Depot)
• Portico
• PubMed
• PubMed Central (PMC)
• ProQuest
• ScienceDirect (and archived via LexisNexis)
• Scopus
• Scisearch
• The British Library

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International Journal of Surgery: Open (IJSO)

Founded: 2015

Editor-in-Chief: Professor David Rosin, Barbados

ISSN: 2405-8572

Publisher: Elsevier

Frequency: Bimonthly (six issues a year)

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Impact:

• CiteScore 2017 – 0.10 (350/385 in surgery)
• SJR 2017 – 0.116
• SNIP 2017 – 0.088

Indexing/archiving:

• ClinicalKey
• CLOCKSS
• DANS (for all published datasets sent to Mendeley)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• 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

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

Publisher: Elsevier

Frequency: annual

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

The content is based on translations of content already published in the IJS

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International Journal of Surgery: Oncology (IJSOnc)

Founded: 2016

Editor-in-Chief: Professor David Rosin, Barbados

ISSN: 2471-3864

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Frequency: Monthly
Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Indexing/archiving: 

• China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)
  
• CLOCKSS
• Portico
• EBSCO
  
• Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
• Ex Libris ltd
  
• Google Scholar​
  
• Hinari
  
• Journal Guide
• Labtiva Inc.
  
• ProQuest
  
• PubMed
• PubMed Central (PMC)
• SageKnowledge
  
• Semper Tool
  
• TDNet

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International Journal of Surgery: Protocols (IJSP)

Founded: 2016

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

ISSN: 2468-3574

Publisher: Elsevier

Frequency: Bimonthly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Affiliations: National Research Collaborative (NRC)

Impact:

• CiteScore 2017 – 0.67
• SJR 2017 – 0.141
• SNIP 2017 – 0.100

Indexing/archiving:

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

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International Journal of Short Reports (IJSSR)

Founded: 2016

Editor-in-Chief: Professor David Rosin, Barbados

ISSN: 2468-7340

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Frequency: Quarterly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Indexing/archiving: 

• Baidu Scholar
• China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)
• EBSCO Publishing’s Electronic Databases
• Exlibris – Primo Central
• Google Scholar
• Hinari
• Infotrieve
• National Science Library
• Portico
• ProQuest
• TdNet

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Annals of Medicine and Surgery:
Case Reports (AMSCR)

Founded: 2017

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

ISSN: 2515-8872

Publisher: IJS Press

Frequency: Quarterly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Indexing/archiving:

• SHERPA/RoMEO
• Google Scholar
• Exlibris
• CLOCKS/LOCKS
• CNKI
• OpenAIRE

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Annals of Medicine and Surgery: Protocols

Founded: 2017

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

ISSN: 2515-8902

Publisher: IJS Press

Frequency: Quarterly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Indexing/archiving:

• SHERPA/RoMEO
• Google Scholar
• Exlibris
• CLOCKS/LOCKS
• CNKI
• OpenAIRE

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International Journal of Surgery: Global Health (IJSGH)

Founded: 2018

Editor-in-Chief: Professor David Rosin, Barbados

ISSN: 2576-3342

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Frequency: Monthly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Indexing/archiving:

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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International Journal of Orthoplastic Surgery (IJOPS)

Founded: 2018

Editor-in-Chief: Mr Umraz Khan, Bristol

ISSN: 2515-7566

Publisher: IJS Press

Frequency: Quarterly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Indexing/archiving:

• SHERPA/RoMEO
• Google Scholar
• Exlibris
• CLOCKS/LOCKS
• CNKI
• OpenAIRE

Affiliation: American Microsurgical Orthoplastic Society (AMOS)

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