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Indian Journal of Neurosurgery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
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ISSN 2277-9167Verify ISSN ↗2277-954XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 473 / 597 | 20th | Q4 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 357 / 403 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2015–2017), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Indian Journal of Neurosurgery is Q4 in Surgery (rank 473 of 597) and Q4 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 357 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Neurosurgery 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.142, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Indian Journal of Neurosurgery is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its print ISSN is 2277-9167 and its online ISSN is 2277-954X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Indian Journal of Neurosurgery has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #509 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Indian Journal of Neurosurgery published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 84. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (77.6%), Japan (3.1%) and Nigeria (2.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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