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Journal rankings · indicator year 2010

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Surgery journal rankings 2010

531 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine

Surgery has 531 ranked journals in 2010. The median journal has an OJR of 0.44, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.01 on 2009; Q1 starts at OJR 1.02. The top three are Gastroenterology, Diabetes, and Annals of Surgery.

Ranks and citation indicators: 2010. 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 2007–2009, the window the 2010 score is computed on.

531
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.

0.44+0.01 vs 2009
This subfieldAll 0.93World 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.

25%
All fields: 20%
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.

$3,440
Median positive listed APC: $3,440 among 275 journals. Another 4 list $0; 252 have no known price. All fields: $3,490.

Subfields of Medicine (42)

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531 ranked journals

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Quartiles split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. Q1 is the top quarter and Q4 the bottom quarter.

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Surgery ranking, 2010

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 2009. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor.

Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2007–2009, the window the 2010 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked.

Share of the journal’s 2007–2009 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 2001 to 2010.

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1GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States
4.32Q19.08 0.79 down from 20091,72839%$4,180
2DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States
3.92Q19.11 0.40 up from 20091,26088%—
3Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
3.79Q16.87 0.82 down from 20091,0969%—
4The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States
3.41Q15.47 0.55 up from 200983110%$4,400
5GutBMJ · United Kingdom
3.40Q18.30 1.36 up from 200985436%—
6MedicineOAWolters Kluwer · United States
3.17Q16.49 1.17 down from 200911814%$1,950
7RadiographicsRadiological Society of North America · United States
2.93Q14.76 0.55 up from 20094475%—
8The American Journal of Surgical PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.88Q15.93 0.55 up from 200974514%—
9American Journal of TransplantationElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.73Q15.93 0.05 down from 20091,20494%$4,300
10Journal of Bone and Joint SurgeryWolters Kluwer · United States
2.68Q15.04 0.81 up from 20091,73212%—
11British Medical BulletinOxford University Press · United Kingdom
2.68Q15.27 1.33 up from 200912120%$4,362
12Current Opinion in GastroenterologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.67Q15.59 0.38 up from 200924318%—
13Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British VolumeBritish Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery · United Kingdom
2.51Q14.54 0.96 up from 200992165%—
14Annals of MedicineOAInforma · United Kingdom
2.41Q15.39 0.46 up from 200917998%$2,557
15Clinical Journal of PainLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.41Q14.01 0.11 down from 200936916%—
16Journal of the American College of SurgeonsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.31Q14.24 0.33 up from 20099256%$3,600
17AnesthesiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.25Q14.52 0.26 up from 20091,25957%—
2.21Q13.79 0.39 up from 200977134%$3,500
19Seminars in Pediatric SurgeryElsevier BV · United States
2.19Q12.78 0.34 down from 20091186%$3,420
20British Journal of AnaesthesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom
2.17Q14.30 0.06 up from 20091,01480%$4,450
21Tissue Engineering Part AMary Ann Liebert, Inc. · United States
2.16Q14.68 1.36 up from 200973847%—
22Gastroenterology Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States
2.14Q14.02 0.44 up from 200914912%$3,560
2.13Q13.99 0.63 down from 200923563%$2,490
24Clinics in Sports MedicineElsevier BV · United States
2.10Q13.74 1.64 up from 200913525%$3,000
25Current Opinion in LipidologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom
2.10Q15.08 0.57 up from 200930017%—
26HelicobacterWiley · United Kingdom
2.09Q13.60 0.07 down from 200925026%$4,150
2.09Q13.66 1.20 up from 20093263%—
28The American Journal of GastroenterologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
2.06Q14.45 0.19 up from 20091,9062%$4,390
29Surgical Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States
1.99Q13.62 0.50 up from 20092454%$3,190
30Journal of Orthopaedic Research®Wiley · United States
1.97Q13.49 0.30 up from 200972174%$3,970
31Current Opinion in AnaesthesiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United Kingdom
1.96Q13.62 0.43 down from 20093734%—
32Surgery for Obesity and Related DiseasesElsevier BV · United States
1.95Q13.22 0.39 up from 20094095%$3,800
33Surgical EndoscopySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.93Q13.79 0.47 up from 20091,55319%$4,390
34SpineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.92Q13.42 0.02 up from 20092,0227%—
35Surgical InnovationSAGE Publishing · United States
1.89Q13.15 0.80 up from 20091524%$4,150
1.87Q13.71 0.01 down from 200914533%$3,360
1.86Q13.46 0.16 up from 20092078%$3,620
38Archives of SurgeryAmerican Medical Association · United States
1.83Q13.52 0.11 up from 20097029%—
39Journal of Orthopaedic TraumaLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.81Q13.06 0.27 up from 20094127%—
40The Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationElsevier BV · United States
1.81Q13.51 0.33 down from 20097917%$3,606
41AtherosclerosisElsevier BV · Netherlands
1.80Q14.04 0.13 up from 20091,48720%$4,020
42The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical CareLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States
1.79Q13.51 0.27 up from 20091,8356%—
43Acta OrthopaedicaOATaylor & Francis · Sweden
1.78Q12.81 0.03 down from 2009400100%$1,779
44British journal of surgeryOxford University Press · United Kingdom
1.77Q14.10 0.15 up from 200984738%$5,007
45Phlebology The Journal of Venous DiseaseSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
1.76Q12.97 0.80 up from 20091236%$4,150
46Obesity SurgerySpringer Science+Business Media · United States
1.76Q13.65 0.79 up from 20091,00220%$4,590
47BMC Musculoskeletal DisordersOABioMed Central · United Kingdom
1.76Q13.11 0.07 up from 2009468100%$3,090
48TrialsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United Kingdom
1.74Q12.79 0.21 up from 2009237100%$2,790
49Annals of Emergency MedicineElsevier BV · United States
1.73Q13.13 0.57 up from 200990342%$3,850
1.72Q13.04 0.59 up from 20091414%$3,160

Citations made in 2010. Corpus-wide, 73.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.

187 additional Surgery journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2007–2009, 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: 2010. Publication window: 2007–2009. How these summaries are calculated

Ranked journals
531
Window papers (baseline)
202,162 +26.6% from indicator year 2007
Median OJR
0.4390 -2.9% from indicator year 2007
Rising journals (2025)
87

Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2007–2009 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.