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Digestive Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 0253-4886Verify ISSN ↗1421-9883Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 273 / 597 | 54th | Q2 |
| Gastroenterology | 107 / 176 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Digestive Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 273 of 597) and Q3 in Gastroenterology (rank 107 of 176), by CiteScore 2025.
Digestive Surgery 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.375, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 83.
Digestive Surgery is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 0253-4886 and its online ISSN is 1421-9883.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Digestive Surgery has an h-index of 94 and a 2-year mean of 1.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #201 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Digestive Surgery published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 116. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (21.4%), Netherlands (18.8%) and Italy (9.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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.
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