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Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
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ISSN 2694-1902Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 398 / 597 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 322 / 403 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons is Q3 in Surgery (rank 398 of 597) and Q4 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 322 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons 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 1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 33rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.285, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 10.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons is published by American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Its ISSN is 2694-1902.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #394 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Neurosurgery: Case Lessons published 469 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (42.1%), Japan (28.4%) and China (4.6%).
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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