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Status
Inactive/Discontinued
Coverage
1983–1990 (also 1960–1981, 1955–1958, 1953, 1950–1951)
Source type
Journal
Open access
No
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Surgical Forum
Surgical Forum is not currently indexed in Scopus. Published by American College of Surgeons.
ISSN 0071-8041Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American College of Surgeons
Scopus · Inactive
0
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Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
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Not listed in Web of Science.
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Not listed in ABDC.
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Not in DOAJ
Open accessNot registered as fully open access
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Not listed in FT50.
UT DallasUTD top-100 business research
Not listed in UT Dallas.
ONOS · APC coveredOne Nation One Subscription (Govt of India)
Not in the ONOS APC-supported list.
Publishing in this journal is not centrally APC-funded under One Nation One Subscription.
Is Surgical Forum indexed in Scopus? No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (1983–1990 (also 1960–1981, 1955–1958, 1953, 1950–1951)).
What is the impact factor of Surgical Forum? Surgical Forum has no Journal Impact Factor — JIF is published only for Web of Science SCIE and SSCI titles — and Scopus has not published a current CiteScore for it either. Treat any "impact factor" quoted for this journal elsewhere as unofficial.
Is Surgical Forum in Web of Science? No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Is Surgical Forum open access? No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Impact & reach — open metrics via OpenAlex
13
h-index
0
2-yr mean citations
18
i10-index
276
works indexed
1,047
total citations
Surgical Forum published 6 papers in 1997; its busiest recent year was 1989 with 52. 2026* is the year so far.
Main topics
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. Updated 2026-09-24.
Integrity signals — indicators, not proof of misconduct
- Scopus statusInactive — coverage ended 1990
- Retracted papers None recorded
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