The American Surgeon

ISSN 0003-1348 · SAGE Publishing · United States · active 1961–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile (2025): —
Cites per paper (2y): 1.3
SJR: —
h-index: 112

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 18 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, The American Surgeon is listed in 2 subject categories without a quartile.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of The American Surgeon in each subject category
Subject category	Quartile	Rank in category
Medicine (miscellaneous)	—	—
Surgery	—	—

Cites per document (2 years, Scopus): 1.02
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus): 326

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category; “—” in the Quartile column means Scimago prints no quartile for that category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” in the Rank column means we hold no rank consistent with the printed quartile, or none at all. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

The American Surgeon has an h-index of 112 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Indexing & access

Indexed in: ScopusWeb of SciencePubMed
Access status:: hybrid. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

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Scope

traumaemergencycaremedicineherniarepairmanagementsurgerydiagnosisabdominalinjuriesappendicitis

Frequently asked

Is The American Surgeon a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag The American Surgeon. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is The American Surgeon indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, The American Surgeon appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of The American Surgeon?

Papers in The American Surgeon are cited about 1.3 times each within two years of publication, with an h-index of 112. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is The American Surgeon open access?

Our index records its access status as "hybrid". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.