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Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Korean Neurosurgical Society.
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ISSN 1598-7876Verify ISSN ↗2005-3711Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Neurosurgical Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 168 / 597 | 71st | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 213 / 403 | 47th | Q3 |
| Neuroscience (all) | 77 / 112 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society is Q2 in Surgery (rank 168 of 597), Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 213 of 403) and Q3 in Neuroscience (all) (rank 77 of 112), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.577, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 55.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$300 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 Korean Neurosurgical Society is published by Korean Neurosurgical Society. Its print ISSN is 1598-7876 and its online ISSN is 2005-3711.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 1.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #217 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society published 98 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 109. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (73.7%), Türkiye (9.1%) and China (9.1%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.7 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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