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Journal of Visualized Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI. Published by AME Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2221-2965Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AME Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 380 / 541 | 29th | Q3 |
| Surgery | 426 / 597 | 28th | Q3 |
| Education | 1312 / 1698 | 22nd | 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 0.8.
Journal of Visualized Surgery is Q3 in Communication (rank 380 of 541), Q3 in Surgery (rank 426 of 597) and Q4 in Education (rank 1312 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Visualized Surgery 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.176, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 5.
Journal of Visualized Surgery is published by AME Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 2221-2965.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Visualized Surgery has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #275 of 511 Scopus journals in Communication.
Journal of Visualized Surgery published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 255. 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 Japan (27.5%), United States (25.1%) and Italy (21.1%).
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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