The American Journal of Surgery: impact and ranking
The American Journal of Surgery has a 2-year mean citedness of 2.02 in OpenAlex, which ranks #6,381 of 18,122 journals, and an h-index of 253. This is the open counterpart of the impact factor, not Clarivate's figure. All journals.
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.02 #6,381 of 18,122 journals
- h-index
- 253 #819 of 18,122
- Citations
- 887k #428 of 18,122
- Works
- 40k 22.1 citations per work
What is the impact factor of The American Journal 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 The American Journal of Surgery: 2.02, the mean number of citations received by the journal's papers of the last two years. That ranks The American Journal of Surgery #6,381 of 18,122 journals, in the top 35%. The two figures follow the same idea on different records, so they are not equal.
What is the h-index of The American Journal of Surgery?
OpenAlex gives The American Journal of Surgery an h-index of 253: 253 of its papers have each been cited at least 253 times. That ranks #819 of 18,122 journals.
How much does The American Journal of Surgery publish?
OpenAlex records 40,176 works in The American Journal of Surgery from 1917 to 2026, cited 886,683 times in all, 22.1 citations per work. By total citations it ranks #428 of 18,122 journals.
Works recorded in OpenAlex for each year of publication. The last year is partial.
About The American Journal of Surgery
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Country
- United States
- ISSN-L
- 0002-9610
- In OpenAlex
- 1917 to 2026
- Open access
- OpenAlex does not list The American Journal of Surgery as fully open access, though individual articles in it may be open. Its listed article processing charge is US$3,830.
- OpenAlex record
- S101510409
Journals ranked near The American Journal of Surgery
The journals with a page that stand just above and below The American Journal of Surgery on 2-year mean citedness.
| Rank | Journal | 2-year mean citedness | h-index |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,264 | The Journal of Comparative Neurology | 2.05 | 431 |
| 6,303 | Medicine | 2.04 | 285 |
| 6,319 | eLife | 2.03 | 310 |
| 6,389 | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 2.01 | 632 |
| 6,538 | Developmental Biology | 1.96 | 335 |
| 6,623 | Review of Scientific Instruments | 1.94 | 252 |
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.