Journal rankings · indicator year 2018
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Subfield ranking · 2018
Surgery journal rankings 2018
901 ranked journals · Subfield in Medicine
Surgery has 901 ranked journals in 2018. The median journal has an OJR of 0.48, below the world average of 1.00, unchanged on 2017; Q1 starts at OJR 0.96. The top three are Obesity Facts, Nature Reviews Disease Primers, and Gut.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2018. 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 2015–2017, the window the 2018 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)
- Surgery901
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine349
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health289
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine280
- Oncology224
- Infectious Diseases210
- Epidemiology193
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism162
- Neurology161
- Physiology155
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging146
- Psychiatry and Mental health141
Show all 42 subfields
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine115
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health101
- Ophthalmology95
- Dermatology89
- Hematology78
- Obstetrics and Gynecology73
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology59
- Complementary and alternative medicine54
- Pharmacology51
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Emergency Medicine42
- Geriatrics and Gerontology34
- Rehabilitation34
- Otorhinolaryngology33
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine30
- Hepatology24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Immunology and Allergy21
- Genetics20
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine15
- Urology15
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
901 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 2017. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2015–2017, the window the 2018 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2015–2017 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 2009 to 2018. | Compare |
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1Obesity FactsOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 6.22Q1 | 13.40 5.09 up from 2017 | 137 | 100% | $3,590 | ||
2Nature Reviews Disease PrimersNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 4.67Q1 | 35.37 16.16 up from 2017 | 147 | 24% | — | ||
3GutBMJ · United Kingdom | 4.58Q1 | 10.77 0.68 down from 2017 | 894 | 50% | — | ||
4GastroenterologyElsevier BV · United States | 3.95Q1 | 8.91 0.86 down from 2017 | 1,708 | 11% | $4,180 | ||
5The American Journal of Sports MedicineSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.55Q1 | 6.65 0.62 down from 2017 | 1,163 | 23% | $4,400 | ||
6Journal of Bone and Joint SurgeryWolters Kluwer · United States | 3.12Q1 | 5.09 0.21 up from 2017 | 1,059 | 20% | — | ||
7The American Journal of Surgical PathologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.12Q1 | 6.11 0.92 down from 2017 | 625 | 30% | — | ||
8Annals of SurgeryLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 3.00Q1 | 6.49 0.13 up from 2017 | 1,461 | 19% | — | ||
9RadiographicsRadiological Society of North America · United States | 2.88Q1 | 5.09 0.66 up from 2017 | 450 | 6% | — | ||
10The Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationElsevier BV · United States | 2.81Q1 | 5.90 0.79 down from 2017 | 707 | 5% | $3,606 | ||
11DiabetesAmerican Diabetes Association · United States | 2.74Q1 | 6.50 0.39 up from 2017 | 1,049 | 8% | — | ||
12Journal of Clinical MedicineOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 2.53Q1 | 6.94 0.11 up from 2017 | 349 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
13The Bone & Joint JournalBritish Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery · United Kingdom | 2.52Q1 | 5.10 0.51 up from 2017 | 864 | 20% | — | ||
14The American Journal of GastroenterologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.51Q1 | 5.25 0.71 down from 2017 | 997 | 3% | $4,390 | ||
15Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal MedicineSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 2.43Q1 | 4.17 1.08 up from 2017 | 195 | 100% | $4,590 | ||
16World Journal of Emergency SurgeryOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.41Q1 | 5.50 0.92 up from 2017 | 156 | 100% | $3,990 | ||
17JAMA SurgeryAmerican Medical Association · United States | 2.37Q1 | 4.87 1.48 up from 2017 | 1,076 | 48% | — | ||
18American Journal of TransplantationElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.34Q1 | 5.53 0.40 up from 2017 | 1,348 | 95% | $4,300 | ||
19Journal of the American College of SurgeonsLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.24Q1 | 4.23 0.13 down from 2017 | 846 | 3% | $3,600 | ||
20Best Practice & Research Clinical GastroenterologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.22Q1 | 4.76 0.16 down from 2017 | 220 | 14% | $3,620 | ||
21HelicobacterWiley · United Kingdom | 2.19Q1 | 4.34 0.10 down from 2017 | 228 | 27% | $4,150 | ||
22British journal of surgeryOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 2.16Q1 | 6.19 0.37 up from 2017 | 722 | 45% | $5,007 | ||
23Acta OrthopaedicaOATaylor & Francis · Sweden | 2.13Q1 | 3.50 0.29 up from 2017 | 363 | 100% | $1,779 | ||
24AnesthesiologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 2.12Q1 | 3.93 0.91 down from 2017 | 1,060 | 29% | — | ||
25Regional Anesthesia & Pain MedicineBMJ · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 3.92 0.22 up from 2017 | 448 | 8% | — | ||
26Perioperative MedicineOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 4.32 0.23 up from 2017 | 68 | 100% | $2,990 | ||
27Clinical Medicine Insights PediatricsOASAGE Publishing · United States | 2.05Q1 | 5.19 2.04 up from 2017 | 39 | 100% | $4,150 | ||
28Seminars in Pediatric SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 1.99Q1 | 3.71 0.53 up from 2017 | 180 | 7% | $3,420 | ||
29The Journal of ArthroplastyElsevier BV · United States | 1.98Q1 | 4.15 0.47 up from 2017 | 1,933 | 16% | $4,650 | ||
30Orthopaedic Journal of Sports MedicineOASAGE Publishing · United States | 1.98Q1 | 3.40 0.08 up from 2017 | 552 | 100% | $1,500 | ||
31Sports Health A Multidisciplinary ApproachSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.97Q1 | 3.57 0.38 up from 2017 | 198 | 100% | $4,400 | ||
32Journal of Neurosurgery SpineUnited States | 1.95Q1 | 3.81 0.22 up from 2017 | 631 | 76% | — | ||
33Gastroenterology Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.92Q1 | 4.09 0.03 up from 2017 | 165 | 13% | $3,560 | ||
34Advances in Preventive MedicineHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 1.92Q1 | 3.06 0.96 up from 2017 | 33 | 100% | $800 | ||
35Bone and Joint ResearchOAJournal of Bone and Joint Surgery · United Kingdom | 1.91Q1 | 4.01 1.00 up from 2017 | 202 | 100% | $1,594 | ||
36Health Technology AssessmentOANIHR Journals Library · United Kingdom | 1.89Q1 | 6.57 1.23 down from 2017 | 278 | 100% | — | ||
37Cancer CytopathologyWiley · United States | 1.89Q1 | 4.93 1.11 up from 2017 | 349 | 77% | $3,000 | ||
38Case Reports in GastroenterologyOAKarger Publishers · Switzerland | 1.89Q1 | 3.51 1.29 up from 2017 | 303 | 100% | $1,030 | ||
39Journal of Personalized MedicineOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 1.87Q1 | 4.90 1.79 up from 2017 | 74 | 100% | $3,137 | ||
40EFORT Open ReviewsOABritish Editorial Society of Bone & Joint Surgery · United Kingdom | 1.86Q1 | 3.33 1.87 up from 2017 | 121 | 100% | $1,800 | ||
41Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic SurgeonsPublisher not listed | 1.86Q1 | 2.78 0.29 down from 2017 | 441 | 7% | — | ||
42Journal of Shoulder and Elbow SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 1.86Q1 | 3.39 0.26 down from 2017 | 1,019 | 12% | $3,850 | ||
43Current Atherosclerosis ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.84Q1 | 4.36 1.25 up from 2017 | 219 | 21% | $5,190 | ||
44Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related SurgeryElsevier BV · United States | 1.81Q1 | 4.34 0.68 down from 2017 | 913 | 32% | $3,500 | ||
45Journal of clinical lipidologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.79Q1 | 3.52 0.10 up from 2017 | 482 | 22% | $3,510 | ||
46Current Opinion in GastroenterologyLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.77Q1 | 3.49 0.16 down from 2017 | 207 | 16% | — | ||
47Current Gastroenterology ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.77Q1 | 4.23 0.53 up from 2017 | 178 | 8% | $3,790 | ||
48SpineLippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States | 1.76Q1 | 3.10 0.02 down from 2017 | 1,662 | 11% | — | ||
49Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North AmericaElsevier BV · United States | 1.75Q1 | 3.61 0.56 down from 2017 | 149 | 12% | $3,360 | ||
50Surgery for Obesity and Related DiseasesElsevier BV · United States | 1.74Q1 | 3.53 0.65 up from 2017 | 813 | 7% | $3,800 |
Subfields of Medicine, with Surgery highlighted.
- Surgery901
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine349
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health289
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine280
- Oncology224
- Infectious Diseases210
- Epidemiology193
- Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism162
- Neurology161
- Physiology155
- Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging146
- Psychiatry and Mental health141
- Orthopedics and Sports Medicine115
- Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health101
- Ophthalmology95
- Dermatology89
- Hematology78
- Obstetrics and Gynecology73
- Rheumatology65
- Nephrology59
- Complementary and alternative medicine54
- Pharmacology51
- Reproductive Medicine50
- Emergency Medicine42
- Geriatrics and Gerontology34
- Rehabilitation34
- Otorhinolaryngology33
- Pathology and Forensic Medicine30
- Hepatology24
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine23
- Immunology and Allergy21
- Genetics20
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine15
- Urology15
- Gastroenterology7
- Internal Medicine4
- Transplantation3
- Family Practice2
- Health Informatics2
- Anatomy0
- Biochemistry0
- Microbiology0
Journals
Citations made in 2018. Corpus-wide, 81.5% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
267 additional Surgery journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2015–2017, 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: 2018. Publication window: 2015–2017. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 901
- Window papers (baseline)
- 263,607 +6.6% from indicator year 2015
- Median OJR
- 0.483 -3.3% from indicator year 2015
- Rising journals (2025)
- 87
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2015–2017 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.