Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports

Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports is published by Georg Thieme Verlag KG 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 Meningioma and schwannoma management, Head and Neck Surgical Oncology and Bone Tumor Diagnosis and Treatments, together about 34.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Neurology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Target Readership:The Journal of Neurological Surgery Reports (JNLS Reports) is aimed primarily at neurosurgeons and skull base surgeons.Journal Purpose and Mission:JNLS Reports aims to communicate unique or unusual clinical cases encountered across the fields of neurosurgery and skull base surgery and to report individual results of new surgical approaches and techniques.As a companion journal it strives to complement the research findings and reviews published in the Journal of Neurological Surgery (JNLS) with clinical data and cases, and to promote greater exchange of information between the specialties and sub-specialties related to neurosurgery and skull base surgery.Types of Articles Published:JNLS Reports publishes Original Reports, Review Reports, Technical Reports, Case Reports, Operative Video Reports, Letters-to-the-editor and Invited reports.JNLS Reports, in collaboration with The American Head and Neck Society (AHNS), publishes the Skull Base Oncology Case Series by invitation only.Subject and Content Scope:As a multidisciplinary publication with a special focus on detailing the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of clinical cases the focus areas span but are not limited to otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, maxillo-facial surgery, neuro-ophthalmology, neuro-radiology, and plastic surgery.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): CLINICAL NEUROLOGY

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIDOAJLetPub

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

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher)

0.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

22OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

117OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.75OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

12.5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

98.98%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

40LetPub · 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 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Anonymous peer reviewLetPub

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.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Georg Thieme Verlag KG

Country or region

Germany

Language

English

ISSN

2193-6358

Electronic ISSN

2193-6366

Society / sponsor

Leading Societies

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub