World Journal of Surgery
Last updated ISSN 0364-2313
World Journal of Surgery is published by Springer Science+Business Media in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,000.
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What it publishes
Recent work in World Journal of Surgery concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Vascular Procedures and Complications
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
- Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0364-2313, 1432-2323 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,000 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 17,008 |
| Publishing since | 1940 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/268 |
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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