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Neurocirugia is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE. Published by Neurocirugia.
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ISSN 1130-1473Verify ISSN ↗2340-6305Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Neurocirugia
Cost to publish: About US$2,830 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 359 / 597 | 39th | Q3 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 309 / 403 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1990–1995, 1972–1980), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Neurocirugia is Q3 in Surgery (rank 359 of 597) and Q4 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 309 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Neurocirugia 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.266, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,830 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.
Neurocirugia is published by Neurocirugia. Its print ISSN is 1130-1473 and its online ISSN is 2340-6305.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Neurocirugia has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #554 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Neurocirugia published 103 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 349. 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 82 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Spain (50.6%), Türkiye (11%) and United States (5.5%). 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. 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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