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Operative Neurosurgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 2332-4252Verify ISSN ↗2332-4260Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 283 / 597 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 274 / 403 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Operative Neurosurgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 283 of 597) and Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 274 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Operative Neurosurgery 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.465, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 47.
Operative Neurosurgery is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 2332-4252 and its online ISSN is 2332-4260.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Operative Neurosurgery has an h-index of 104 and a 2-year mean of 1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #295 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Operative Neurosurgery published 409 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 510. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (50.9%), Japan (6.3%) and South Korea (5.3%). 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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