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Lasers in Surgery and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Liss Inc..
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ISSN 0196-8092Verify ISSN ↗1096-9101Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Liss Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,620 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 94 / 597 | 84th | Q1 |
| Dermatology | 32 / 152 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Lasers in Surgery and Medicine is Q1 in Surgery (rank 94 of 597) and Q1 in Dermatology (rank 32 of 152), by CiteScore 2025.
Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.580, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 135.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,620 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.
Lasers in Surgery and Medicine is published by Wiley-Liss Inc. Its print ISSN is 0196-8092 and its online ISSN is 1096-9101.
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.
Lasers in Surgery and Medicine has an h-index of 161 and a 2-year mean of 1.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #187 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Lasers in Surgery and Medicine published 124 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 186. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.8%), China (22.6%) and Brazil (9.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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