Archives of Plastic Surgery-APS

Archives of Plastic Surgery-APS is published by Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Reconstructive Surgery and Microvascular Techniques, Reconstructive Facial Surgery Techniques and Breast Implant and Reconstruction, together about 39.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Archives of Plastic Surgery (Arch Plast Surg, APS) is the official journal of the Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Hong Kong Society of Plastic and Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, Indonesian Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, Singapore Association of Plastic Surgeons, The Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Thailand and is published six times per year. It is a peer reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes articles in all fields of plastic and reconstructive surgery including basic research, wound healing, congenital, craniofacial surgery, facial trauma, microsurgery, burns, tumor, breast surgery, hand surgery, and aesthetic surgery related to all areas of plastic surgery. Especially in aesthetic and some other subspecialties of plastic surgery, surgical concepts and technical approaches are different for those of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, and thus APS aims to be the leading forum for communications of techniques related to Asian patients' needs. APS also embraces its identity as the leading plastic surgery journal in Asia, aiming to be the main forum for communication among the plastic surgery scholars and clinicians of the Asia-Pacific region and beyond, and the main voice presenting this group's technical innovations to an international audience. Scholars from around the world are warmly invited to submit original articles reporting on the newest basic and clinical studies, including surgical trials. Review articles, case reports, ideas and innovations, book reviews, letters, images, and communications are also solicited. APS makes it a priority to keep the entire process of submission, review, and publication as speedy as possible while maintaining the best of international standards of rigor. Therefore, APS offers online manuscript submission for rapid peer-review and communication with authors.This work was supported by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies Grant funded by the Korean Government (Ministry of Education). Since March 2023, Archives of Plastic Surgery is only publishing articles under the CC BY license.Abstracting and indexing: PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Embase, DOAJ, KoreaMed, KoMCI, CrossRef, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), EBSCO, and Google ScholarPublication Frequency: Archives of Plastic Surgery is published on the 30th of every odd month (January, March, May, July, Septembe

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): SURGERY

Editor-in-chief Girija Prasad RathThePublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Hong Kong, China 1, Singapore 1, Thailand 1 (3 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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PMCEmbaseCASPublisher website

Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, Crossref

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

1.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

4.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

4.7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.54LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.98LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

57OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

706OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.61OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

100%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

39LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 10 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 10 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Unspecified 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.

• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ

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Publisher

Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons

Country or region

Korea, Republic of

Language

English

ISSN

2234-6163

Electronic ISSN

2234-6171

Society / sponsor

Indian Society of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub