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Indian Journal of Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer India.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0972-2068Verify ISSN ↗0973-9793Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer India
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 423 / 597 | 29th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1973–1983, 1967, 1965, 1958, 1945–1952), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.8.
Indian Journal of Surgery is Q3 in Surgery (rank 423 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.157, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Indian Journal of Surgery is published by Springer India. Its print ISSN is 0972-2068 and its online ISSN is 0973-9793.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Journal of Surgery has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 0.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #469 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Indian Journal of Surgery published 238 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 624. 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 (2026), authors are most often from India (54.2%), Türkiye (18.8%) and China (6.3%). 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. 6 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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