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Surgical Infections is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1096-2964Verify ISSN ↗1557-8674Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 217 / 597 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 205 / 361 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 94 / 147 | 36th | Q3 |
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 Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Surgical Infections is Q2 in Surgery (rank 217 of 597), Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 205 of 361) and Q3 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 94 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Surgical Infections 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.533, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 76.
Surgical Infections is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1096-2964 and its online ISSN is 1557-8674.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Surgical Infections has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 1.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #208 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Surgical Infections published 142 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 172. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (43.3%), China (19.4%) and Japan (7.2%).
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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