Journal of Refractive Surgery
Last updated ISSN 1042-962X
Journal of Refractive Surgery is published by Slack Incorporated (United States) in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Refractive Surgery concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Corneal surgery and disorders
- Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
- Corneal Surgery and Treatments
- Intraocular Surgery and Lenses
- Glaucoma and retinal disorders
- Ocular Surface and Contact Lens
- Retinal and Macular Surgery
- Ocular Infections and Treatments
- Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
- Ocular Disorders and Treatments
Key facts
| Publisher | Slack Incorporated (United States) |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1042-962X, 1081-597X, 1938-2391 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,414 |
| Publishing since | 1985 |
| Journal website | www.healio.com/ophthalmology/journals/jrs |
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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