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Journal rankings · indicator year 2007

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Subfield ranking · 2007

Surgery journal rankings 2007

444 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Surgery has 444 ranked journals in 2007. The median OJR rose 0.09 on 2006 to 0.45, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 0.97. The top three are Annals of Surgery, Gastroenterology, and Diabetes.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2007. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.

Ranked journals

Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 score is computed on.

444
19% of Medicine
Median OJR

The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.

The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.

The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.

0.45+0.09 vs 2006
This subfieldAll 0.86World 1.00
Open-access journals

Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.

21%
All fields: 16%
Median listed APC

Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.

$3,475
Median positive listed APC: $3,475 among 222 journals. Another 2 list $0; 220 have no known price. All fields: $3,550.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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444 ranked journals

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Surgery ranking, 2007

Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest.

OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields.

The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list.

OJR

Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field.

▲ or ▼ is the change from 2006. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2004–2006, the window the 2007 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2004–2006 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal.

List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed.

The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2007.

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1Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
4.47Q17.75 1.01 down from 200679168%—
2GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States
4.16Q19.57 0.66 down from 20061,48448%$4,180
3DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States
4.01Q19.92 0.06 down from 20061,50459%—
4MedicineOAWolters Kluwer · United States
3.31Q17.29 0.28 down from 2006988%$1,950
5Atherosclerosis SupplementsElsevier BV · Netherlands
3.12Q14.51 1.27 down from 2006680%$3,000
6GutBMJ · United Kingdom
3.07Q16.76 0.01 up from 20061,26977%—
7The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States
2.59Q14.64 0.73 up from 20067206%$4,400
8American Journal of TransplantationElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.54Q16.01 0.12 down from 20061,24591%$4,300
9RadiographicsRadiological Society of North America · United States
2.51Q14.07 0.26 up from 20064362%—
10Annals of MedicineOAInforma · United Kingdom
2.37Q16.53 0.61 up from 2006199100%$2,557
11The American Journal of GastroenterologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.33Q15.53 0.34 up from 20061,4921%$4,390
12Clinical Journal of PainLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.32Q13.44 0.17 up from 20062786%—
2.30Q10.68 0.11 up from 2006590%—
14Orthopedic Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States
2.24Q12.93 1.23 down from 20061580%$3,950
15The American Journal of Surgical PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.17Q14.29 0.44 down from 20067321%—
2.10Q14.65 0.64 up from 20062221%$3,620
17AnesthesiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.05Q14.33 0.49 up from 20061,09453%—
18Current Opinion in LipidologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom
1.98Q15.17 0.34 up from 20062731%—
19British Medical BulletinOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.93Q14.14 1.37 up from 20067718%$4,362
20Archives of SurgeryAmerican Medical Association · United States
1.85Q13.46 0.14 up from 20066507%—
21Clinical Orthopaedics and Related ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.84Q12.81 0.55 down from 20061,5993%—
22SpineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.82Q13.54 0.24 up from 20061,8772%—
23Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British VolumeBritish Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery · United Kingdom
1.80Q12.83 0.30 down from 200690764%—
24Journal of Bone and Joint SurgeryWolters Kluwer · United States
1.80Q12.59 0.62 down from 20062,1852%—
25Obesity SurgerySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.79Q14.07 0.16 down from 20067137%$4,590
26Journal of the American College of SurgeonsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.74Q13.22 0.45 up from 20069271%$3,600
27British journal of surgeryOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.69Q14.19 0.08 up from 200689436%$5,007
28The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.68Q13.16 0.30 up from 20061,3992%—
29The American Journal of SurgeryElsevier BV · United States
1.68Q13.13 0.10 down from 20061,0656%$3,830
30Liver TransplantationLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.63Q13.72 0.83 down from 200693267%$2,150
31Current Opinion in GastroenterologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.62Q13.98 0.77 up from 20062080%—
32Journal of Orthopaedic Research®Wiley · United States
1.62Q12.78 0.19 down from 200661161%$3,970
33The British Journal of Hand TherapySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.60Q10.38 3.52 down from 2006328%—
1.60Q13.23 0.92 up from 200687722%$3,500
35The Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationElsevier BV · United States
1.60Q13.62 0.63 up from 20068863%$3,606
36British Journal of AnaesthesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom
1.58Q13.30 0.37 up from 20061,00187%$4,450
37The Journal of ArthroplastyElsevier BV · United States
1.57Q12.33 0.26 down from 20067309%$4,650
38Annals of Surgical OncologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.56Q13.77 0.18 up from 200673513%$4,590
39Gastroenterology Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States
1.55Q13.62 0.65 up from 20061563%$3,560
40Health Technology AssessmentOANIHR Journals Library · United Kingdom
1.54Q16.76 2.43 down from 2006121100%—
41AtherosclerosisElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.54Q13.79 0.08 up from 20061,31622%$4,020
1.53Q12.08 0.32 down from 20062650%—
43HelicobacterWiley · United Kingdom
1.52Q12.94 0.07 up from 20062478%$4,150
44Seminars in Pediatric SurgeryElsevier BV · United States
1.51Q12.84 0.55 up from 20061040%$3,420
45SurgeryElsevier BV · United States
1.50Q13.16 0.09 down from 200685612%$4,130
46Journal of Shoulder and Elbow SurgeryElsevier BV · United States
1.49Q12.15 0.26 up from 20064832%$3,850
47The Spine JournalElsevier BV · Singapore
1.49Q12.00 0.79 down from 20064874%$4,980
48TransplantationWolters Kluwer · United States
1.49Q13.74 0.22 down from 20062,1315%—
49PancreatologyElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.45Q13.28 0.65 up from 20061728%$4,000
50Clinics in Sports MedicineElsevier BV · United States
1.45Q12.22 0.58 up from 200615817%$3,000

Citations made in 2007. Corpus-wide, 72.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

152 additional Surgery journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2004–2006, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.

Rising journals

At a glance

Indicator year: 2007. Publication window: 2004–2006. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
444
Window papers (baseline)
159,671 +32.5% from indicator year 2004
Median OJR
0.452 +29.7% from indicator year 2004
Rising journals (2025)
87

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2004–2006 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.

Category by indicator year
MeasureYear series20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Ranked journals3163363583783914094284444745005315706106757347738218529019369629851,001993980945
Window papers (baseline)91,365104,064110,345118,403120,545132,135144,236159,671171,317188,308202,162216,202221,967228,874238,791247,306252,044254,527263,607275,745288,629304,057320,840331,064332,656336,566
Median OJR0.3500.330.3360.3420.34840.34820.370.4520.4430.430.43900.45380.4630.4610.4700.500.4710.4860.4830.4840.4930.4580.43860.4460.45420.448

How to read these rankings

OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
Quartiles
Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
Impact factor (2-year)
Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
Rank ranges
Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.