International Journal of Surgery

International Journal of Surgery

Discipline	Surgery
Language	English
Edited by	Riaz Agha
Publication details
Former name(s)	The Journal of Surgery
History	2003-present
Publisher	Wolters Kluwer
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Delayed, after 12 months
Impact factor	15.3 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Int. J. Surg.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1743-9191 (print) 1743-9159 (web)
OCLC no.	61747594
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The International Journal of Surgery, formerly known as The Journal of Surgery, is a monthly open-access peer-reviewed medical journal of surgery established in 2003. The journal has been published by Elsevier since 2005, and is being published by Wolters Kluwer since 2023. The journal is affiliated with the Association of Surgeons in Training, the New York Surgical Society, and the Chinese chapter of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association.

The journal is indexed and abstracted in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 15.3.^[1]

Since 2004, the journal has annually awarded the Harold Ellis Prize "in recognition of scientific papers judged to be outstanding".^[2] Harold Ellis is emeritus professor of surgery at the University of London and currently a professor in the Department of Anatomy & Human Sciences at King's College London.

The International Journal of Surgery Case Reports publishes open access surgical case reports. The editor-in-chief is David Rosin. The journal annually awards the Thomas Starzl Prize.

The International Journal of Surgery Open is an open access journal of surgery. The editor-in-chief is D. Rosin.

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