Journal rankings · indicator year 2017
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Subfield ranking · 2017
Surgery journal rankings 2017
852 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Surgery has 852 ranked journals in 2017. The median journal has an OJR of 0.49, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.02 on 2016; Q1 starts at OJR 0.97. The top three are Gastroenterology, The American Journal of Sports Medicine, and Gut.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2017. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 score is computed on.
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.
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.
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.
Subfields of Medicine (42)
- Surgery852
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine324
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health270
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine266
- Oncology213
- Infectious Diseases198
- Epidemiology185
- Neurology157
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism156
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging144
- Physiology143
- Psychiatry and Mental health142
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine107
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health97
- Ophthalmology87
- Dermatology83
- Hematology74
- Obstetrics and Gynecology68
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology58
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Complementary and alternative medicine47
- Pharmacology46
- Emergency Medicine38
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology32
- Rehabilitation29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine25
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Hepatology23
- Genetics21
- Immunology and Allergy20
- Urology13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
852 ranked journals
Filters
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. | 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 2016. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2014–2016, the window the 2017 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2014–2016 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 2008 to 2017. | Compare |
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1GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 4.17Q1 | 9.77 0.49 up from 2016 | 1,530 | 11% | $4,180 | ||
2The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.16Q1 | 7.28 0.17 up from 2016 | 1,162 | 15% | $4,400 | ||
3GutBMJ · United Kingdom | 3.68Q1 | 11.45 3.36 up from 2016 | 1,074 | 56% | — | ||
4Obesity FactsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 3.16Q1 | 8.31 2.61 up from 2016 | 122 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
5Journal of Bone and Joint SurgeryWolters Kluwer · United States | 3.09Q1 | 4.88 0.46 down from 2016 | 1,180 | 13% | — | ||
6Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.05Q1 | 6.36 0.36 up from 2016 | 1,453 | 24% | — | ||
7The American Journal of Surgical PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.01Q1 | 7.03 0.13 up from 2016 | 656 | 28% | — | ||
8Nature Reviews Disease PrimersNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 2.90Q1 | 19.22 9.44 up from 2016 | 96 | 25% | — | ||
9The Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationElsevier BV · United States | 2.86Q1 | 6.70 1.13 up from 2016 | 742 | 6% | $3,606 | ||
10DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 2.78Q1 | 6.11 0.57 down from 2016 | 1,293 | 59% | — | ||
11The American Journal of GastroenterologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.69Q1 | 5.96 0.66 down from 2016 | 957 | 2% | $4,390 | ||
12Best Practice & Research Clinical GastroenterologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.54Q1 | 4.92 0.14 down from 2016 | 226 | 15% | $3,620 | ||
13The Bone & Joint JournalBritish Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery · United Kingdom | 2.51Q1 | 4.59 0.43 up from 2016 | 898 | 24% | — | ||
14RadiographicsRadiological Society of North America · United States | 2.50Q1 | 4.43 0.60 down from 2016 | 459 | 11% | — | ||
15HelicobacterWiley · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 4.45 0.38 up from 2016 | 231 | 19% | $4,150 | ||
16Journal of Clinical MedicineOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.42Q1 | 6.82 3.11 up from 2016 | 330 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
17Perioperative MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.33Q1 | 4.09 0.51 up from 2016 | 53 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
18American Journal of TransplantationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.32Q1 | 5.13 0.33 down from 2016 | 1,343 | 95% | $4,300 | ||
19Seminars in Pediatric SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 2.31Q1 | 3.18 0.27 up from 2016 | 170 | 13% | $3,420 | ||
20AnesthesiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.28Q1 | 4.84 0.62 up from 2016 | 1,083 | 15% | — | ||
21World Journal of OrthopedicsOASpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.23Q1 | 3.48 0.47 down from 2016 | 310 | 99% | — | ||
22JAMA SurgeryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 2.18Q1 | 3.39 0.69 down from 2016 | 984 | 47% | — | ||
23World Journal of Emergency SurgeryOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.15Q1 | 4.58 0.87 up from 2016 | 171 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
24Journal of the American College of SurgeonsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.13Q1 | 4.36 0.12 up from 2016 | 926 | 7% | $3,600 | ||
25Gastroenterology Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 2.13Q1 | 4.07no change | 158 | 10% | $3,560 | ||
26Journal of Shoulder and Elbow SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 2.12Q1 | 3.65 0.17 up from 2016 | 991 | 10% | $3,850 | ||
27Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 2.12Q1 | 5.03 0.21 down from 2016 | 948 | 44% | $3,500 | ||
28Current Problems in SurgeryOAElsevier BV · United States | 2.10Q1 | 2.60 1.75 down from 2016 | 38 | 7% | $2,780 | ||
29Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic SurgeonsPublisher not listed | 2.09Q1 | 3.07 0.64 down from 2016 | 402 | 3% | — | ||
30British journal of surgeryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.09Q1 | 5.81 0.03 down from 2016 | 747 | 42% | $5,007 | ||
31Health Technology AssessmentOANIHR Journals Library · United Kingdom | 2.05Q1 | 7.80 0.30 up from 2016 | 257 | 100% | — | ||
32Orthopedic Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 2.04Q1 | 3.77 0.88 up from 2016 | 174 | 0% | $3,950 | ||
33Acta OrthopaedicaOATaylor & Francis · Sweden | 1.95Q1 | 3.20 0.72 down from 2016 | 397 | 100% | $1,779 | ||
34XenotransplantationWiley · Denmark | 1.95Q1 | 4.17 0.40 up from 2016 | 160 | 29% | $4,550 | ||
35Journal of Neurosurgery SpineUnited States | 1.93Q1 | 3.59 0.37 up from 2016 | 694 | 85% | — | ||
36Regional Anesthesia & Pain MedicineBMJ · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 3.69 0.55 up from 2016 | 419 | 11% | — | ||
37Pain and TherapyOAAdis, Springer Healthcare · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 3.54 0.35 up from 2016 | 43 | 100% | $7,400 | ||
38Journal of Experimental OrthopaedicsOASpringer Nature · Germany | 1.88Q1 | 3.41 1.67 up from 2016 | 69 | 100% | $1,850 | ||
39Current Opinion in GastroenterologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.88Q1 | 3.64 0.16 down from 2016 | 224 | 27% | — | ||
40Bone and Joint ResearchOAJournal of Bone and Joint Surgery · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.01 0.52 down from 2016 | 163 | 100% | $1,594 | ||
41Orthopaedic Journal of Sports MedicineOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.82Q1 | 3.32 1.45 up from 2016 | 389 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
42Clinical Orthopaedics and Related ResearchLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.82Q1 | 2.75 0.64 down from 2016 | 1,487 | 100% | — | ||
43British Journal of AnaesthesiaElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.82Q1 | 3.37 0.64 down from 2016 | 1,282 | 100% | $4,450 | ||
44Journal of clinical lipidologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.43 1.28 down from 2016 | 393 | 24% | $3,510 | ||
45Current Gastroenterology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.81Q1 | 3.70 0.27 up from 2016 | 161 | 18% | $3,790 | ||
46Digestive DiseasesKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.80Q1 | 3.49 1.41 down from 2016 | 382 | 31% | — | ||
47Sports Health A Multidisciplinary ApproachSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.80Q1 | 3.18 0.19 up from 2016 | 193 | 100% | $4,400 | ||
48The Journal of ArthroplastyElsevier BV · United States | 1.79Q1 | 3.68 0.01 up from 2016 | 1,671 | 13% | $4,650 | ||
49Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.78Q1 | 4.17 0.02 down from 2016 | 160 | 5% | $3,360 | ||
50Clinical Journal of PainLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.78Q1 | 2.71 0.16 down from 2016 | 412 | 46% | — |
Subfields of Medicine, with Surgery highlighted.
- Surgery852
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine324
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health270
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine266
- Oncology213
- Infectious Diseases198
- Epidemiology185
- Neurology157
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism156
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging144
- Physiology143
- Psychiatry and Mental health142
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine107
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health97
- Ophthalmology87
- Dermatology83
- Hematology74
- Obstetrics and Gynecology68
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology58
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Complementary and alternative medicine47
- Pharmacology46
- Emergency Medicine38
- Geriatrics and Gerontology35
- Otorhinolaryngology32
- Rehabilitation29
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine25
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Hepatology23
- Genetics21
- Immunology and Allergy20
- Urology13
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine12
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Family Practice3
- Transplantation3
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2017. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
281 additional Surgery journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2014–2016, 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.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2017. Publication window: 2014–2016. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 852
- Window papers (baseline)
- 254,527 +6.6% from indicator year 2014
- Median OJR
- 0.486 +3.6% from indicator year 2014
- Rising journals (2025)
- 87
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2014–2016 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.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 316 | 336 | 358 | 378 | 391 | 409 | 428 | 444 | 474 | 500 | 531 | 570 | 610 | 675 | 734 | 773 | 821 | 852 | 901 | 936 | 962 | 985 | 1,001 | 993 | 980 | 945 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 91,365 | 104,064 | 110,345 | 118,403 | 120,545 | 132,135 | 144,236 | 159,671 | 171,317 | 188,308 | 202,162 | 216,202 | 221,967 | 228,874 | 238,791 | 247,306 | 252,044 | 254,527 | 263,607 | 275,745 | 288,629 | 304,057 | 320,840 | 331,064 | 332,656 | 336,566 | |
| Median OJR | 0.350 | 0.33 | 0.336 | 0.342 | 0.3484 | 0.3482 | 0.37 | 0.452 | 0.443 | 0.43 | 0.4390 | 0.4538 | 0.463 | 0.461 | 0.470 | 0.50 | 0.471 | 0.486 | 0.483 | 0.484 | 0.493 | 0.458 | 0.4386 | 0.446 | 0.4542 | 0.448 |
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.