BMC Surgery
Last updated ISSN 1471-2482
BMC Surgery is published by BioMed Central in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,090.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Surgery concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Appendicitis Diagnosis and Management
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Hernia repair and management
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
- Intestinal and Peritoneal Adhesions
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1471-2482 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,090 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 4,710 |
| Publishing since | 1945 |
| Journal website | bmcsurg.biomedcentral.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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