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Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery.
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ISSN 0386-9768Verify ISSN ↗1348-9372Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 589 / 597 | 1st | Q4 |
| Gastroenterology | 174 / 176 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present (also 1970), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery is Q4 in Surgery (rank 589 of 597) and Q4 in Gastroenterology (rank 174 of 176), by CiteScore 2025.
Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 1st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery is published by Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery. Its print ISSN is 0386-9768 and its online ISSN is 1348-9372.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #536 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Japanese Journal of Gastroenterological Surgery published 103 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 145. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (100%). 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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