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Techniques in Coloproctology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 1123-6337Verify ISSN ↗1128-045XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 122 / 597 | 79th | Q1 |
| Gastroenterology | 73 / 176 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Techniques in Coloproctology is Q1 in Surgery (rank 122 of 597) and Q2 in Gastroenterology (rank 73 of 176), by CiteScore 2025.
Techniques in Coloproctology 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.777, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,390 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Techniques in Coloproctology is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1123-6337 and its online ISSN is 1128-045X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Techniques in Coloproctology has an h-index of 87 and a 2-year mean of 2.3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Techniques in Coloproctology published 179 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 235. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Italy (12.2%), United Kingdom (10.8%) and China (10.2%).
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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