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Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.
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ISSN 1091-255XVerify ISSN ↗1873-4626Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
Cost to publish: About US$3,950 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 124 / 597 | 79th | Q1 |
| Gastroenterology | 77 / 176 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery is Q1 in Surgery (rank 124 of 597) and Q2 in Gastroenterology (rank 77 of 176), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Gastrointestinal 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.814, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 155.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,950 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.
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery is published by Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. Its print ISSN is 1091-255X and its online ISSN is 1873-4626.
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.
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery has an h-index of 172 and a 2-year mean of 2.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery published 363 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 444. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (50.2%), China (11.6%) and Japan (6.1%). 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. 7 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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