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Neurosurgical Focus is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.7), WoS SCIE. Published by American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
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ISSN 1092-0684Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Association of Neurological Surgeons
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 81 / 597 | 86th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 145 / 403 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.7.
Neurosurgical Focus is Q1 in Surgery (rank 81 of 597) and Q2 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 145 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Neurosurgical Focus 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 4.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.957, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 135.
Neurosurgical Focus is published by American Association of Neurological Surgeons. Its ISSN is 1092-0684.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Neurosurgical Focus has an h-index of 157 and a 2-year mean of 2.63 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #59 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Neurosurgical Focus published 183 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 230. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (62%), South Korea (5.7%) and Italy (5.2%). 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. 9 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 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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