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Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science
ISSN 2731-8389 · Springer · Singapore
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 7.5 (journal website); diamond open access (no APC); no APC; median 123 days to acceptance (100 articles, last 24 months); 66 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science is published by Springer and is classed under Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Anesthesia and Pain Management and Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders, together about 31.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science (APS) is the official journal launched by Tianfu Society of Anesthesiology (TFSA). It is a peer-reviewed (single-blind) Open Access journal that publishes high-quality cutting-edge articles on all aspects of anesthesiology and perioperative science.Except for traditional anesthesiology areas, such as pain, critical care, monitoring, engineering technology, education and nursing etc., this journal emphasizes innovative discoveries based on anesthesiology principles. We will primarily focus on four distinctive sections as follows:1. Anesthesia and brain health, focusing on the perioperative fragile brain functions, such as the developing and aging brains, and anesthetic therapeutics for the unhealthy brains, such as sleep disorder, depression, anxiety, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, etc.2. Anesthesia and perioperative protection of vital organ functions, such as clinical and experimental research in circulation, neurosciences, respiration, etc.3. Perioperative big data and artificial intelligence, such as information management, database research, machine learning, techniques and major applied fields in artificial intelligence, etc.4. Anesthesia mechanism and precise anesthesia, such as anesthetics’ mechanism of action, drug disposition, basic pharmaceutical research of narcotics, precision delivery of anesthetics, novel anesthetic tools, and practice concepts.Research areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to: Anesthesia Mechanism and Precise anesthesia Anesthesia Technology, Equipment and Monitoring Anesthetic Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology Anesthetic Therapeutics, Chinese Medicine Ambulatory Anesthesiology Systemic Neuroscience Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Cardiovascular and Thoracic Anesthesia Clinical and Experimental Circulation Critical Care and Resuscitation Education and Continuing Professional Development Geriatric Anesthesia Obstetric Anesthesia Pediatric Anesthesia Regional Anesthesia Pain Medicine Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care Patient Safety Perioperative Medicine Perianesthesia Nursing
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Jin LiuPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 34 in mainland China (about 57%); most named Mainland China 34, United States 7, United Kingdom 3, Japan 2, Italy 2 (60 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesMedicine12.3%
- Anesthesia and Pain ManagementMedicine9.8%
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive DisordersMedicine9.5%
- Anesthesia and Sedative AgentsMedicine8.6%
- Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity ResearchNeuroscience6.4%
- Hemodynamic Monitoring and TherapyMedicine5.8%
- Nausea and vomiting managementMedicine4.6%
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationMedicine4.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Anesthesiology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 1 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CASPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 7.5Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 7.5Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 19OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 46OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.29OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 17.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 47LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 242,400Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 197 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 50 | 50 | 45 |
| 2025 | 66 | 66 | 327 |
| 2024 | 43 | 43 | 469 |
| 2023 | 38 | 38 | 564 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
123 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 84 days – 168 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 27 days (100 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 163 days
- Sample
- 100 articles with submission and acceptance dates (122 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 19 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 8 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 19 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Diamond open access (no APC)DOAJ
Every article is open access and authors pay no article processing charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | No APC | No | CC BY | |
| OpenAlex | USD 0 | — | — | |
| LetPub | No APC | Yes | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare3 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≥ 150 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 4
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 10,000 words
Article types accepted16
- commentaryIt comments on current discoveries or techniques of interest. (Note: Words: ~1500; Figures & Tables: ~1; References: ~10; Abstract: No; Declarations: Yes; Suppl…Length not stated
- correspondenceAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
- editorialSingle-blind peer review This journal follows a single-blind reviewing procedure. This journal also publishes special/guest-edited issues. The peer review proce…Length not stated
- hypothesisAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
- letterAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
- mini-reviewA refined overview starts with achieved researches and ends by providing a developmental perspective. The core of a mini-review is to combine existed and ongoin…Length not stated
- narrative reviewAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
- newsDeep analysis and scientific explanation on current hot news. (Note: Words: ~1500; Figures & Tables: ~1; References: ~5; Abstract: No; Declarations: Yes; Supple…Length not stated
- opinionAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
- perspectiveAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
- protocolAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
- reportIt describes present investigation result of broad significance on anesthesiology and perioperative medicine. (Note: Words: ~4000; Figures & Tables: ~6; Referen…Length not stated
- research highlightReport exciting research published in renown journals, and to place the new findings into the context of the current literatures. Most items are invited special…Length not stated
- research paperAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
- reviewAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
- systematic reviewAnesthesiology and Perioperative Science accepts submissions of the following article types: Original ResearchIt is generally hypothesis-driven including an int…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- AI use Generative AI Images
Please check Springer’s policy on generative AI images and make sure your work adheres to the principles described therein.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship principles
These guidelines describe authorship principles and good authorship practices to which prospective authors should adhere to. Authorship clarified The Journal and Publisher assume all authors agreed with the content and that all gave explicit consent to submit and that they obtained consent from the responsible authorities at the institute/organization where the work has been carried out, before th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Competing Interests
Authors are requested to disclose interests that are directly or indirectly related to the work submitted for publication. Interests within the last 3 years of beginning the work (conducting the research and preparing the work for submission) should be reported. Interests outside the 3-year time frame must be disclosed if they could reasonably be perceived as influencing the submitted work. Disclo…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability statements
All original research must include a data availability statement. This statement should explain how to access data supporting the results and analysis in the article, including links/citations to publicly archived datasets analysed or generated during the study. Please see our full policy here. If it is not possible to share research data publicly, for instance when individual privacy could be com…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Compliance with Ethical Standards
To ensure objectivity and transparency in research and to ensure that accepted principles of ethical and professional conduct have been followed, authors should include information regarding sources of funding, potential conflicts of interest (financial or non-financial), informed consent if the research involved human participants, and a statement on welfare of animals if the research involved an…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Permission from copyright owners required for previously published material. Model summary
Articles in Springer Nature open access journals do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. Details of the OA licences offered to authors can be found on the individual journal website, in the journal's How to publish with us guide. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open access publishing
To find out more about publishing your work Open Access in Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science, including information on fees, funding and licences, visit our Open access publishing page. Back to top
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Single-blind peer review
This journal follows a single-blind reviewing procedure. This journal also publishes special/guest-edited issues. The peer review process for these articles is the same as the peer review process of the journal in general. Additionally, if a guest editor authors an article in their issue/collection, they will not handle the peer review process. Peer review policy: This journal follows a single-bli…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical Trial Registration
The World Health Organization (WHO) definition of a clinical trial is "any research study that prospectively assigns human participants or groups of humans to one or more health-related interventions to evaluate the effects on health outcomes". The WHO defines health interventions as “A health intervention is an act performed for, with or on behalf of a person or population whose purpose is to ass…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Springer
- Country or region
- Singapore
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2731-8389
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science
What CAS zone is Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science in?
In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 2 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 7.5 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; h-index 19.
How long does peer review take at Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science?
Based on the dates recorded on 100 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 123 days (interquartile range 84–168 days); authors report an average review time of about 19 weeks. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≥ 150 words; Keywords: ≥ 4; Manuscript length: ≤ 10,000 words. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science based?
Of the 60 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 34 (about 57%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (34), United States (7) and United Kingdom (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science is indexed in ESCI and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists CAS; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science open access, and what is the APC?
Anesthesiology and Perioperative Science is a diamond open-access journal (no APC). It charges no article processing charge.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .