Journal profile · Clinical Neurology
Neurosurgery
ISSN 0148-396X · eISSN 1524-4040 · Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · UNITED STATES · Monthly · Founded 1955
Neurosurgery: CAS Zone 2 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 3.61; JCR Q1 (journal website); hybrid open access; median 97 days to acceptance (56 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: fairly easy; 1,302 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Neurosurgery is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications, Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances and Meningioma and schwannoma management, together about 25.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Neurology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Neurosurgery is the official publication of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Neurosurgery provides a medium for the prompt publication of scientific articles dealing with clinical or experimental neurosurgery, reviews, and other information of interest to neurosurgeons.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Clinical Neurology
Editor-in-chief Douglas KondziolkaPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and ComplicationsMedicine10.7%
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine7.8%
- Meningioma and schwannoma managementMedicine7.1%
- Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalusNeuroscience6.9%
- Glioma Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine6.8%
- Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine6.5%
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc PathologyMedicine5.6%
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation TechniquesMedicine4.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · CLINICAL NEUROLOGY · rank 80/296
- JCR Q1 · SURGERY · rank 38/321
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 3.61LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 3.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 1.19LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.52LetPub ·
- h-index
- 183LetPub ·
- h-index
- 302OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 16,040OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.05OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 10.06%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 320LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 45,374 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1,147 | 47 | 92 |
| 2025 | 1,302 | 68 | 1,085 |
| 2024 | 1,084 | 85 | 2,549 |
| 2023 | 945 | 82 | 4,219 |
| 2022 | 822 | 105 | 4,590 |
| 2021 | 646 | 115 | 4,960 |
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
97 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 63 days – 130 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 53 days (56 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 149 days
- Sample
- 56 articles with submission and acceptance dates (2,549 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)
- 2–4 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- Fairly easyLetPub ·
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics
- Publication ethics Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
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
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1955
- ISSN
- 0148-396X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1524-4040
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Neurosurgery
What CAS zone is Neurosurgery in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Neurosurgery is in Zone 2 of Medicine, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Clinical Neurology / Surgery; it is a Top journal. 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 Neurosurgery?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 3.61; CiteScore 5.5, h-index 302.
How long does peer review take at Neurosurgery?
Based on the dates recorded on 56 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 97 days (interquartile range 63–130 days); authors report an average review time of 2–4 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Fairly easy”. 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 JCR quartile is Neurosurgery in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q1; by category, CLINICAL NEUROLOGY Q2 (80/296), SURGERY Q1 (38/321). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 2 of Medicine.
Which databases index Neurosurgery?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Neurosurgery is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Neurosurgery open access, and what is the APC?
Neurosurgery is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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: .