Journal profile · GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery
ISSN 2475-0328 · WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH · AUSTRALIA
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 3.15; fully open access; APC about USD 2,421; median 87 days to acceptance (101 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 28% (journal website); 191 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery is published by WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH 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 Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes, Colorectal Cancer Surgical Treatments and Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, together about 31.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, the official publication of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery, publishes articles on all aspects of gastrointestinal surgery and related interventions. The journal presents timely research on multidisciplinary treatment which serves the needs of the evolving population of scientists, researchers embracing the most recent advances in digestive surgery. The journal also includes up-to-date information in translational research as well as to promote communication and collaboration among researchers and professional clinicians from all over the world. We invite different types of articles such as research articles, review articles, how I do it articles, and letters to the Editors. Abstracting and Indexing Information Current Contents: Clinical Medicine (Clarivate Analytics) Embase (Elsevier) PubMed (NLM) Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery deposits all articles in PMC (PubMed Central)
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY
Editor-in-chief Ken ShirabePublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 1%); most named Japan 54, United States 10, South Korea 5, Mainland China 1, Hong Kong, China 1 (77 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Gastric Cancer Management and OutcomesMedicine12.6%
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical TreatmentsMedicine11%
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology ResearchMedicine8%
- Esophageal Cancer Research and TreatmentMedicine6.5%
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and PrognosisMedicine6.2%
- Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer StudiesMedicine5%
- Esophageal and GI PathologyMedicine4.5%
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct DisordersMedicine3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Gastroenterology & Hepatology | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of SciencePMCEmbaseCurrent ContentsPublisher website
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
- 3.15LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 3.2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.5LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 5.5Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.36LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.65LetPub ·
- h-index
- 55OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 430OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.12OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 12.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 168LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 177Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 348,858Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,164 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 133 | 133 | 22 |
| 2025 | 191 | 191 | 246 |
| 2024 | 140 | 140 | 715 |
| 2023 | 123 | 123 | 1,266 |
| 2022 | 115 | 115 | 1,367 |
| 2021 | 128 | 128 | 2,218 |
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
87 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 59 days – 115 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 14 days (102 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 104 days
- Sample
- 101 articles with submission and acceptance dates (346 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 11 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 28%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 28%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 87 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 11 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
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,421 / GBP 1,610 / EUR 2,200 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,350 / EUR 2,140 / GBP 1,560 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,035 / GBP 1,350 / EUR 1,850 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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 prepare9 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- 5
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted5, with length limits
- editorialreatment for specific circumstances. G. Editorial (only by invitation of Editors) Word limit: 1,000 words maximum. Abstract: No abstract required for this manus…main text ≤ 1,000 words
- guidelinesF. Guidelines (only by invitation of Editors)Length not stated
- mini reviewd synthesizing all relevant studies. D. Mini Review Authors: Maximum of 5 Word limit: 3,000 words maximum including abstract and references. Abstract: 250 womain text ≤ 3,000 words
- review articlein either basic or clinical science. B. Review Article Authors: Maximum of 5 Word limit: 5,000 words maximum including abstract and references. Abstract: 250 womain text ≤ 5,000 words
- systematic reviewrgo peer review prior to acceptance. C. Systematic Review Authors: Maximum of 5 Word limit: 5,000 words maximum including abstract and references. Abstract: 250…main text ≤ 5,000 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- AI use Use of AI tools
Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools—such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs)—cannot be considered capable of initiating an original piece of research without direction by human authors. They also cannot be accountable for a published work or for research design, which is a generally held requirement of authorship (as discussed in the previous section), no…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery follows the recommendations formulated by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors regarding criteria for authorship. Accordingly, each person listed as an author or coauthor for a submitted manuscript must meet all four criteria. An author or coauthor shall have:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest
Authors must declare any financial support or relationships that may pose a conflict of interest by disclosing at the time of submission any financial arrangements they have with a company whose product figures prominently in the submitted manuscript or with a company making a competing product. A Conflict of Interest statement needs to be supplied and will be included included in the Conflict of …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Data sharing encouraged; authors should include a data accessibility statement with a link to the repository. Model summary
The journal encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper. Please check here for a list of standard templates for the text tha…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Agreement (OAA)
Open access publication with Article Publication Charge on acceptance; invited articles free of charges; waivers/discounts for Research4Life countries. Model summary
If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Single-blind peer review; papers sent to review only if Editor-in-Chief determines quality and relevance requirements are met. Model summary
This journal operates under a single-blind peer review model.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism
Manuscripts may be screened for plagiarism against previously published works. Model summary
The journal to which you are submitting your manuscript employs a plagiarism detection system.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints considered for review; authors should update pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article and may post the final published version immediately after publication. Model summary
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Authors may also post the final published version of the article immediately after publication. Please read Wiley's Preprint policy.
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
- WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
- Country or region
- AUSTRALIA
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2475-0328
- Society / sponsor
- Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Surgery
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 10, Issue 5 (September 2026)
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery
What CAS zone is Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery is in Zone 3 of Medicine, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 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 Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.15; CiteScore 5.5, h-index 55.
How long does peer review take at Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery?
Based on the dates recorded on 101 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 87 days (interquartile range 59–115 days); authors report an average review time of about 11 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 28% (2025). 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 Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: 5; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. 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 Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery based?
Of the 77 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 1%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Japan (54), United States (10) and South Korea (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, PMC, Embase and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery open access, and what is the APC?
Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,421.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .