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Ambulatory Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by International Association for Ambulatory Surgery.
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ISSN 0966-6532Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Association for Ambulatory Surgery
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical and Surgical Nursing | 26 / 28 | 8th | Q4 |
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 140 / 147 | 5th | Q4 |
| Surgery | 573 / 597 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Ambulatory Surgery is Q4 in Medical and Surgical Nursing (rank 26 of 28), Q4 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 140 of 147) and Q4 in Surgery (rank 573 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
Ambulatory Surgery is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4, 8th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 18.
Ambulatory Surgery is published by International Association for Ambulatory Surgery. Its ISSN is 0966-6532.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ambulatory Surgery has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 28 Scopus journals in Medical and Surgical Nursing.
Ambulatory Surgery published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2005 with 140. 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.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. 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.
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