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Pediatric Neurosurgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 1016-2291Verify ISSN ↗1423-0305Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 151 / 351 | 57th | Q2 |
| Surgery | 257 / 597 | 57th | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 263 / 403 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1975–1985, 1955), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Pediatric Neurosurgery is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 151 of 351), Q2 in Surgery (rank 257 of 597) and Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 263 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Pediatric 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 57th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.386, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 85.
Pediatric Neurosurgery is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 1016-2291 and its online ISSN is 1423-0305.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Pediatric Neurosurgery has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #221 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Pediatric Neurosurgery published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 109. 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 98 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (54.3%), Italy (5.1%) and India (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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