Journal profile · SURGERY
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques
ISSN 1895-4588 · eISSN 2299-0054 · Termedia Publishing House Ltd. · POLAND
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.75; fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 12 weeks (community reports); community-reported acceptance: easy; 58 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques is published by Termedia Publishing House Ltd. 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 Minimally Invasive Surgical Techniques, Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes and Abdominal Surgery and Complications, together about 29.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Polish Archives of Internal Medicine is an international, peer-reviewed, online-only periodical issued monthly in English as an official journal of the Polish Society of Internal Medicine. The journal is designed to publish articles related to all aspects of internal medicine, both clinical and basic science, provided they have practical implications.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): SURGERY
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Minimally Invasive Surgical TechniquesMedicine14.1%
- Bariatric Surgery and OutcomesMedicine9%
- Abdominal Surgery and ComplicationsMedicine6.6%
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct DisordersMedicine5.6%
- Hernia repair and managementMedicine5.4%
- Colorectal Cancer Surgical TreatmentsMedicine5.3%
- Esophageal and GI PathologyMedicine5.1%
- Gastric Cancer Management and OutcomesMedicine4.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Surgery | 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 | Surgery | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
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
- 1.75LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 1.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.5LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.89LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher)
- 0.5Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 14LetPub ·
- h-index
- 32OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 392OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.78OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 17.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 97.91%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 57LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,275 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 37 | 37 | 2 |
| 2025 | 58 | 58 | 34 |
| 2024 | 56 | 56 | 82 |
| 2023 | 55 | 55 | 263 |
| 2022 | 75 | 75 | 474 |
| 2021 | 70 | 70 | 659 |
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 PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 5 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 12 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 | EUR 2,300 | No | CC BY, CC BY-NC-SA | |
| OpenAlex | EUR 2,300 | — | — | |
| LetPub | EUR 2,300 | No | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Termedia Publishing House Ltd.
- Country or region
- POLAND
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1895-4588
- Electronic ISSN
- 2299-0054
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 21 (2026)
- Official links
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques
What CAS zone is Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Surgery. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.75; CiteScore 3.3, h-index 32.
How long does peer review take at Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques?
Authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “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.
Which databases index Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques open access, and what is the APC?
Videosurgery and Other Miniinvasive Techniques is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website, 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: .