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Acta Neurochirurgica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0001-6268Verify ISSN ↗0942-0940Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 156 / 597 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 211 / 403 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1950–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Acta Neurochirurgica is Q2 in Surgery (rank 156 of 597) and Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 211 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Neurochirurgica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.683, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 117.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,990 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Neurochirurgica is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0001-6268 and its online ISSN is 0942-0940.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Neurochirurgica has an h-index of 149 and a 2-year mean of 2.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #71 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Acta Neurochirurgica published 339 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 512. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (12.6%), China (10.9%) and Japan (7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 22 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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