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Surgery (United Kingdom)

Elsevier Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2002

ISSN1878-1764

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.231

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.283

Total Worksi

3,380

Total Citationsi

13,115

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.44

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Surgery (United Kingdom) is a journal that publishes educational reviews presenting current knowledge and practice in surgery. It covers recent advances that improve disease understanding and patient treatment, including general surgery, orthopaedics, perioperative medicine, urology, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, paediatric surgery, plastic surgery, and neurosurgery.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2002

Annual Volume~ 146 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications3,380

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Elsevier Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1878-1764

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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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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?

N/A

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

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

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

150

447

2019

153

640

2020

154

533

2021

136

205

2022

153

322

2023

156

155

2024

129

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

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

SurgeryQ3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Surgery

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesHuman auditory perception and evaluationEducational Robotics and EngineeringMeta-analysis and systematic reviewsSAS software applications and methodsAppendicitis Diagnosis and ManagementUrological Disorders and TreatmentsHemodynamic Monitoring and TherapyBone fractures and treatments

Frequently asked questions about Surgery (United Kingdom)

Is Surgery (United Kingdom) a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Surgery (United Kingdom): it is indexed in Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Surgery (United Kingdom)?

Surgery (United Kingdom) is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.231.

Is Surgery (United Kingdom) indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Surgery (United Kingdom) is indexed in Scopus.