Updates in Surgery
ISSN 2038-131x · Springer Science+Business Media · Germany · active 1987–2026
Metrics
“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. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.
Indexing & access
Access status: unknown. 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.
Scope
Frequently asked
Is Updates in Surgery a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag Updates in Surgery. 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 Updates in Surgery indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, Updates in Surgery 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 Updates in Surgery's impact?
Papers in Updates in Surgery are cited about 1.9 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q1, with an h-index of 53. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.
Is Updates in Surgery open access?
We hold no reliable open-access classification for Updates in Surgery. Check the journal's own site for its access model and any article processing charge.