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Annals of African Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4), DOAJ. Published by Surgical Society of Kenya.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1999-9674Verify ISSN ↗2523-0816Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Surgical Society of Kenya
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 503 / 597 | 15th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2008–2017), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
Annals of African Surgery is Q4 in Surgery (rank 503 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
Annals of African 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 0.4, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.120, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 8.
Annals of African Surgery is published by Surgical Society of Kenya. Its print ISSN is 1999-9674 and its online ISSN is 2523-0816.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Annals of African Surgery has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #513 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Annals of African Surgery published 24 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 58. 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 81 research articles (2022–2025), authors are most often from Kenya (38.7%), Nigeria (18.5%) and India (14.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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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