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Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS SCIE. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
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ISSN 0044-409XVerify ISSN ↗1438-9592Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 403 / 597 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present (also 1950–1961, 1947–1948), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie is Q3 in Surgery (rank 403 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie 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 1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.146, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 35.
Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0044-409X and its online ISSN is 1438-9592.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 0.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #513 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie published 294 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 308. 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (94.1%), Switzerland (2.4%) and China (1.2%). 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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