Annals of Surgery: impact and ranking
Annals of Surgery has a 2-year mean citedness of 5.59 in OpenAlex, which ranks #1,427 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 453. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.59 #1,427 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 453 #138 of 18,122
- Citations
- 1.8M #143 of 18,122
- Works
- 37k 49.2 citations per work
What is the impact factor of Annals of Surgery?
The impact factor is a figure Clarivate licenses, so it is not shown here. Its open counterpart is the 2-year mean citedness OpenAlex holds for Annals of Surgery: 5.59, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks Annals of Surgery #1,427 of 18,122 journals, in the top 8%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of Annals of Surgery?
OpenAlex gives Annals of Surgery an h-index of 453: 453 of its papers have each been cited at least 453 times. That ranks #138 of 18,122 journals.
How much does Annals of Surgery publish?
OpenAlex records 37,204 works in Annals of Surgery from 1885 to 2026, cited 1,831,474 times in all, 49.2 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #143 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About Annals of Surgery
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0003-4932
- In OpenAlex
- 1885 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list Annals of Surgery as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open.
- OpenAlex record
- S157664895
Journals ranked near Annals of Surgery
The journals with a page that stand just above and below Annals of Surgery on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,406 | The American Journal of Sports Medicine | 5.65 | 361 |
| 1,407 | Frontiers in Microbiology | 5.64 | 343 |
| 1,408 | The Astrophysical Journal | 5.64 | 697 |
| 1,434 | Journal of Sound and Vibration | 5.57 | 274 |
| 1,437 | Analytica Chimica Acta | 5.57 | 305 |
| 1,453 | Frontiers in Immunology | 5.55 | 350 |
How these figures are made
Every figure is from OpenAlex's record of this journal, snapshot of 2026-10-14. The 2-year mean citedness is not Clarivate's impact factor: it counts the citations OpenAlex has recorded, so it differs from the licensed figure. Ranks are among the 18,122 journals with at least 1,000 works in OpenAlex and a record in 2025 or later that pass checks for record errors. Method and limits.