Journals

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

Prize: The IJS Executive Committee and Editorial Board annually awards the Harold Ellis Prize since 2004, with past winners available here.

Affiliations:

Impact:

2-year Impact Factor 2018: 3.158 (2.693 in 2017)
5-year Impact Factor 2018: 2.996
Google 2018 H5 index: 40 and H5 Median: 51
CiteScore 2018: 2.64 (29/390 in surgery), 2017: 2.55 (35/385)
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2018: 0.920, 2017: 0.834
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2018: 2.028, 2017: 1.893
Eigenfactor Score 2018 0.01586.

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 (IJSCR was Elsevier’s first open access journal)

Peer-review: double blind

Prize: The IJSCR Executive Committee and Editorial Board annually awards the Thomas E. Starzl Prize since 20013, with past winners available here.

Article Processing Charge (APC): $995 for case reports and $1,195 for case series.
Authors from Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Philippines, Russia or Turkey: $650
HINARI countries (groups A and B): $300

Impact:

CiteScore 2018: 0.62 (259/390 in surgery), 2017: 0.66 (247/385)
SJR 2018: 0.263, 2017: 0.260
SNIP 2018: 0.594, 2017: 0.651
Google 2016 H5 index: 18 and H5 Median: 20

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: Elsevier

Frequency: Monthly

Access: Open access

Peer-review: double blind

Article Processing Charge (APC): $1,000 for full length articles and $850 for other articles like editorials and letters
Authors from Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Philippines, Russia or Turkey: $650
HINARI countries (groups A and B): $300

Impact:

CiteScore 2018: 1.44 (136/390 in surgery), 2017: 1.31 (146/385)
SJR 2018: 0.428, 2017: 0.492
SNIP 2018: 0.954, 2017: 0.855

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
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

Article Processing Charge (APC): $1,700
Authors from Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Philippines, Russia or Turkey: $650
HINARI countries (groups A and B): $300

Impact:

CiteScore 2018: 0.43 (285/390 in surgery), 2017: 0.10 (350/385)
SJR 2018: 0.140, 2017: 0.116
SNIP 2018: 0.277, 2017: 0.088

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

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.

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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

Article Processing Charge (APC): $1,000 USD for Tier 1 manuscripts (Original Research Articles, Review Articles, Experimental Research) and $400 USD for Tier 2 manuscripts (Letters and Editorials).

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
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)

Article Processing Charge (APC): $1,000.
Authors from Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Philippines, Russia or Turkey: $650
HINARI countries (groups A and B): $300

Impact: