Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is published by Springer US and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Facial Rejuvenation and Surgery Techniques, Breast Implant and Reconstruction and Body Contouring and Surgery, together about 39.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is a publication of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and the official journal of the European Association of Societies of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (EASAPS), Società Italiana di Chirurgia Plastica Ricostruttiva ed Estetica (SICPRE), Vereinigung der Deutschen Aesthetisch Plastischen Chirurgen (VDAPC), the Romanian Aesthetic Surgery Society (RASS), Asociación Española de Cirugía Estética Plástica (AECEP), La Sociedad Argentina de Cirugía Plástica, Estética y Reparadora (SACPER), the Rhinoplasty Society of Europe (RSE), the Iranian Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgeons (ISPAS), the Singapore Association of Plastic Surgeons (SAPS), the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS), the Egyptian Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (ESPRS), the Sociedad Chilena de Cirugía Plástica, Reconstructiva y Estética (SCCP), the Bulgarian Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (BULAPRAS), the Sociedade Portuguesa de Cirurgia Plástica Reconstrutiva e Estética (SPCPRE), and Asociación Nicaragüense de Cirugía Plástica (ANCP).The purpose of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery is to provide a forum for the rapid publication of original articles dealing with techniques advancing the art of aesthetic plastic surgery. Although many of these articles will describe surgical craftsmanship per se, others will deal with complications in surgical procedures and methods by which to treat or avoid them. "Second thoughts" about long established techniques, which should or might be abandoned, modified, or improved, as well as symposia devoted to the controversies arising from the use of one particular technique vs. another and the lessons to be learned from these dialogues will be included. Individual or isolated case histories, which may add to the specialty's increasing fund of knowledge and its advancement; improvements in surgical instruments, pharmaceuticals, and operating room equipment of use to the aesthetic plastic surgeon; and discussions of ancillary problems in aesthetic plastic surgery, such as the role of psychosocial factors in the doctor-patient and the patient-public interrelationships, are all to be presented. The role of preventive medicine and genetic counseling in averting some of the conditions that ultimately require aesthetic surgical correction, as well as certain factors that influence the patient's and surgeon's aesthetic judgement in relation to the overall appearance of a bo

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Research area (LetPub): Surgery

Editor-in-chief Lee L.Q.Publisher website

Editorial board by country: 12 in mainland China (about 9%); most named United States 44, Mainland China 12, Italy 12, Taiwan, China 8, Brazil 8 (137 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

3.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.91LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.36LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

59LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

113OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,398OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.17OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

25.9%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

17.3%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

612LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

1,600,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Average review time (community reports)

about 3 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

32 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

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Publisher

Springer US

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

Founded

1976

ISSN

0364-216X

Electronic ISSN

1432-5241

Latest issue on the website

Volume 50, Issue 16 (August 2026)

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