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

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

Peer-review: double blind

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

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

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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