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Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Japan Neurosurgical Society.
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ISSN 0470-8105Verify ISSN ↗1349-8029Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japan Neurosurgical Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 117 / 597 | 80th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 173 / 403 | 57th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present (also 1959–1968), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica is Q1 in Surgery (rank 117 of 597) and Q2 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 173 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.869, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 68.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$75 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.
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica is published by Japan Neurosurgical Society. Its print ISSN is 0470-8105 and its online ISSN is 1349-8029.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica has an h-index of 85 and a 2-year mean of 1.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #211 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica published 82 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 92. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (84%), Türkiye (5.2%) and South Korea (4.6%). 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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