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Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Edizioni Minerva Medica.
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ISSN 0390-5616Verify ISSN ↗1827-1855Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Edizioni Minerva Medica
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 184 / 597 | 69th | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 225 / 403 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1957–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences is Q2 in Surgery (rank 184 of 597) and Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 225 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.418, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences is published by Edizioni Minerva Medica. Its print ISSN is 0390-5616 and its online ISSN is 1827-1855.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #241 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 211. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Italy (37.3%), United States (25.3%) and Brazil (6.6%).
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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