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Formosan Journal of Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 1682-606XVerify ISSN ↗2213-5413Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 462 / 597 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present (also 1999–2003), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Formosan Journal of Surgery is Q4 in Surgery (rank 462 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
Formosan Journal of Surgery is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 22nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Formosan Journal of Surgery is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 1682-606X and its online ISSN is 2213-5413.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Formosan Journal of Surgery has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #497 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Formosan Journal of Surgery published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 103. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Taiwan (42%), India (22.9%) and Malaysia (6.4%).
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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