Journal profile · Medicine-Surgery
Neurosurgery Practice
ISSN 2834-4383 · Wolters Kluwer Health - Lippincott Williams Wilkins · United States
Neurosurgery Practice: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 0.9 (journal website); JCR Q4 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 2,060; median 107 days to acceptance (89 articles, last 24 months); 67 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Neurosurgery Practice is published by Wolters Kluwer Health - Lippincott Williams Wilkins and is classed under Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Meningioma and schwannoma management, Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications and Head and Neck Surgical Oncology, together about 25.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Neurology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Surgery
Editor-in-chief Douglas KondziolkaPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Meningioma and schwannoma managementMedicine9.2%
- Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and ComplicationsMedicine8.8%
- Head and Neck Surgical OncologyMedicine7.6%
- Glioma Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine5.8%
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular DisturbancesMedicine5.8%
- Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine5.5%
- Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalusNeuroscience5.1%
- Cervical and Thoracic MyelopathyMedicine4.9%
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 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Clinical Neurology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q4 · CLINICAL NEUROLOGY · rank 262/296
- JCR Q4 · SURGERY · rank 242/321
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
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
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 (publisher)
- 0.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.27LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.32LetPub ·
- h-index
- 5OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.64OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 98.74%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 65LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 250 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 85 | 85 | 4 |
| 2025 | 67 | 67 | 37 |
| 2024 | 50 | 50 | 89 |
| 2023 | 48 | 48 | 95 |
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
107 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 76 days – 141 days
- Acceptance to online
- —
- Submission to online
- —
- Sample
- 89 articles with submission and acceptance dates (165 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 28 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 28 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double 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 2,060 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| LetPub | USD 2,060 | 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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Publication ethics Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
EQUATOR Network Reporting Guidelines endorsement and requirement for authors to submit research in accordance with appropriate statement(s) and checklist(s). Model summary
This journal is a member of and subscribes to the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines TRIAL REGISTRATION:
The study was registered with the ClinicalTrials.gov database (NCT03677713).
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
- Wolters Kluwer Health - Lippincott Williams Wilkins
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2834-4383
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Neurosurgery Practice
What CAS zone is Neurosurgery Practice in?
In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Neurosurgery Practice?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 0.9; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 0.6, h-index 5.
How long does peer review take at Neurosurgery Practice?
Based on the dates recorded on 89 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 107 days (interquartile range 76–141 days); authors report an average review time of about 28 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 JCR quartile is Neurosurgery Practice in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q4; by category, CLINICAL NEUROLOGY Q4 (262/296), SURGERY Q4 (242/321). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones.
Which databases index Neurosurgery Practice?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Neurosurgery Practice is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Neurosurgery Practice open access, and what is the APC?
Neurosurgery Practice is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,060.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, DOAJ, 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .