Neurosurgical FOCUS
Last updated ISSN 1092-0684
Neurosurgical FOCUS is published by American Association of Neurological Surgeons in medicine. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Neurosurgical FOCUS concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
- Meningioma and schwannoma management
- Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications
- Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
- Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
Key facts
| Publisher | American Association of Neurological Surgeons |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1092-0684 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,413 |
| Publishing since | 1876 |
| Journal website | thejns.org/ |
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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