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Top 10 Open Access Anesthesiology Journals by Impact Factor

Compare leading open access Anesthesiology journals ranked by Journal Impact Factor. Each journal summary highlights details authors often need when choosing where to submit.

Rankings are based on the latest Journal Impact Factor data currently available in our journal database.

#1
EJ

LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS

JIF 6.8
Q1
Open

The European Journal of Anaesthesiology (EJA) publishes original, high-quality research across anaesthesia, intensive care, perioperative medicine, pain medicine, and critical emergency care, with preference for clinically relevant studies. It also considers e...

Identifiers

ISSN 0265-0215
eISSN 1365-2346

Publication Cost

Optional APC for immediate open access (pricing via Wolters Kluwer Open Health)
#2
KJ

KOREAN SOC ANESTHESIOLOGISTS

JIF 6.3
Q1
Open

The Korean Journal of Anesthesiology (KJA; ISSN: 2005-6419) is the official, English-language, peer-reviewed journal of the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, publishing clinical and scientific work across anesthesiology, critical care, and pain medicine. Wh...

Identifiers

ISSN 2005-6419
eISSN 2005-7563

Publication Cost

Submission/processing free; publication fee per printed page (KRW) with color figure charges; fees waived if corresponding author’s affiliation is outside Korea.
#3
AA

KOREAN SOC ANESTHESIOLOGISTS

JIF 3.2
Q1
Open

Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is the official scientific journal of twelve subsocieties of the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists. It publishes peer-reviewed research in anesthesiology and pain medicine, is indexed in ESCI, SCOPUS, and DOAJ, and is published q...

Identifiers

ISSN 1975-5171
eISSN 2383-7977

Publication Cost

No submission-related fee. APC is KRW 300,000 per article for domestic corresponding authors; waived if the first and corresponding authors are outside Korea; waived for invited articles.

Publishing Timeline

Published quarterly on the last day of January, April, July, and October.
#4
JO

Journal of Anesthesia, Analgesia and Critical Care is an open access international peer reviewed journal dedicated to emerging trends and highly debated topics in anesthesia, analgesia and critical care. It is an official publication of the Italian Society of...

Identifiers

eISSN 2731-3786

Publication Cost

£1440.00 GBP / $2090.00 USD / €1790.00 EUR APC; subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision (median): 6 days
#5
BA

BioMed Central

JIF 2.6
Q2
Open

BMC Anesthesiology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of anesthesiology, critical care, perioperative care and pain management, including clinical and experimental research into anesthetic mechanisms, a...

Identifiers

ISSN 1471-2253
eISSN 1471-2253

Publication Cost

Article processing charge: £2590.00 GBP / $3290.00 USD / €2890.00 EUR; subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision (median): 15 days
#6
JO

Springer Science+Business Media

JIF 2.2
Q2
Open

Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing is an international clinical journal dedicated to technology in anaesthesia, intensive care, emergency, and peri-operative medicine. It encourages the exchange of knowledge and clinical information on clinical monit...

Identifiers

ISSN 1387-1307
eISSN 1573-2614

Publication Cost

Article processing charges vary by journal for Open Choice open access publishing.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision (median): 2 days
#7
PM
JIF 2.1
Q2
Open

Publishing highly topical clinical research relating to the perioperative care of surgical patients, Perioperative Medicine aims to disseminate the distillation, examination and application of clinical evidence to improve surgical outcome. Understanding that m...

Identifiers

eISSN 2047-0525

Publication Cost

Article processing charge: £2290.00 GBP / $3090.00 USD / €2590.00 EUR, subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first decision (median): 23 days
#8
BJ
JIF 1.9
Q2
Open

Brazilian Journal of Anesthesiology is a bimonthly journal published by Sociedade Brasileira de Anestesiologia (SBA). The journal content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

Identifiers

ISSN 0104-0014
eISSN 2352-2291

Publication Cost

The cost of publishing is covered by the Brazilian Society of Anesthesiology, with no charges to authors.

Publishing Timeline

Decisions on submissions take approximately 8 to 12 weeks.
#9
LA
JIF 1.9
Q2
Open

Local and Regional Anesthesia is an open access journal indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central, Scopus, Embase, DOAJ, and OAIster. Reported metrics include a 2024 Impact Factor of 1.9, a 5-year Impact Factor of 4.0, a 2024 CiteScore of 2.8, SNIP of 0.924, and SJ...

Identifiers

ISSN 1178-7112
eISSN 1178-7112

Publishing Timeline

60 days average from submission to first editorial decision
#10
AI
JIF 1.7
Q2
Open

Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy is addressed chiefly to anaesthesiologists and covers issues associated with anaesthesia, intensive therapy, resuscitation, pain research and management, emergency medical care, and perioperative medicine. Due to the interdisc...

Identifiers

ISSN 1642-5758
eISSN 1731-2531

Publishing Timeline

Published continuously throughout the year.
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