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Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH · Germany · Est. 1888

ISSN1435-2451

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

/ 100

Medium Risk

Score Breakdown

✓ WoS SCIE/SSCI+25

✓ Scopus Q2+18

Total43

Journal Impact Factor

This journal is indexed in Web of Science (JCR) and has an official Journal Impact Factor. View the current value on the journal’s page ↗

SJR Score

0.694

H-Index

115

CiteScore

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Scopus metric · on the journal’s page

SNIP

0.869

Total Works

17,386

Total Citations

127,218

2yr Mean Citedness

2.01

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Aims & Scope

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, reputed as the world’s oldest medical Surgery Journal is focused on publishing relevant clinical and basic surgical research. Presents the best results in the field of clinical surgery and basic surgical research. Original articles and reviews report clinical data from general, gastrointestinal, endocrine and transplantation surgery. Published exclusively in English, providing an international discussion forum for its global readership. Accepted articles published in final citable form in a yearly issue an average of 2 weeks post-acceptance as the Journal operates the Continous Article Publishing (CAP) system

⚡ Speed vs Prestige

How does this journal balance review speed with impact level?

SJR Rank

Top 50% in field

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1888

Annual Volume~ 400 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications17,386

Publisher OrgSpringer Science+Business Media

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Submission Info

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Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/12 · 50%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1435-2451

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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APC fees clearly disclosed?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Times cited

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Note: citations accumulate over time so older years appear higher

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

SurgeryQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Surgery

Scopus Categories