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Top 10 Open Access Surgery Journals by Impact Factor

Compare leading open access Surgery 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.

This category currently has 9 open access journals with Journal Impact Factor data.

Burns & Trauma

OXFORD UNIV PRESS

JIF 9.6

Open

Burns & Trauma highlights research and expert perspectives across burns and trauma care, with emphasis on wound healing and regeneration, scar biology and management, biomaterials and skin substitutes, autophagy and lysosome biology in injury, sepsis and haemo...

Identifiers

ISSN 2321-3868

eISSN 2321-3876

Publication Cost

$2,800 APC (CC BY or CC BY-NC)

Publishing Timeline

First decision (all manuscripts): 31 days; First decision (reviewed manuscripts only): 40 days; Submission to acceptance: 123 days; Acceptance to publication: 35 days

Dermatology

Emergency

Surgery

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Hepatobiliary Surgery And Nutrition

AME PUBLISHING COMPANY

JIF 7.8

Open

Identifiers

ISSN 2304-3881

eISSN 2304-389X

Gastroenterology

Nutrition

Surgery

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World Journal Of Emergency Surgery

BMC

JIF 5.8

Open

World Journal of Emergency Surgery is an open access, peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of clinical and basic research related to traumatic and non-traumatic emergency surgery and allied subjects. Areas of interest include emergency surgery, acute car...

Identifiers

ISSN 1749-7922

eISSN 1749-7922

Publication Cost

£2990 / $3990 / €3290 APC

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 3; Submission to acceptance (median days): 50

Emergency

Surgery

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Neurosurgical Focus

American Association of Neurological Surgeons

JIF 3

Open

Identifiers

ISSN 1092-0684

eISSN 1092-0684

Neurology

Surgery

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Journal Of Bone And Joint Infection

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH

JIF 2.8

Open

The Journal of Bone and Joint Infection (JBJI) is a scientific publication of the European Bone and Joint Infection Society and the MusculoSkeletal Infection Society that publishes papers in all areas of orthopaedic infections.

Identifiers

eISSN 2206-3552

Publication Cost

APC invoices are issued; a 50% APC reduction is available for eligible corresponding authors from Western Libraries at the University of Western Ontario submitting from 1 January 2026.

Infectious

Orthopedics

Surgery

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Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open

BMJ

JIF 2.2

Open

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open is the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma’s open access journal dedicated to the rapid publication of peer-reviewed, high-quality trauma and acute care research. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for global iss...

Identifiers

eISSN 2397-5776

Publication Cost

Article Processing Charge (APC) of $3,180; APC for Challenges in Acute Care Surgery of $960; discounted APC of $1,895 for eligible affiliated society members; no submission, color, or page charges

Publishing Timeline

Time to first decision without review: 4 days (median); Time to first decision with review: 36 days (median); Time from acceptance to publication: 24 days (median)

Critical Care

Surgery

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Interactive Cardiovascular And Thoracic Surgery

Oxford University Press

JIF 2.1

Open

Interdisciplinary CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery is a fully Open Access journal published on Oxford Academic for the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and covers cardiovascular and thoracic surgery content across multiple subject areas.

Identifiers

ISSN 1569-9293

eISSN 1569-9285

Publication Cost

Article Processing Charge (APC) applies.

Publishing Timeline

2025 Median days from submission to first decision: 32 days; median days from submission to final decision: 58 days; median days from acceptance to publication: 18 days.

Cardiology

Respiratory

Surgery

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Perioperative Medicine

BioMed Central

JIF 2.1

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

Anesthesiology

Surgery

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Journal Of Endovascular Resuscitation And Trauma Management

Orebro Univeirsty Hospital, EVTM Program

JIF 0.4

Open

The Journal of Endovascular Resuscitation and Trauma Management (JEVTM) is a multidisciplinary scientific and clinical journal focusing on endovascular and hybrid hemorrhage control and resuscitation. It covers all aspects of modern bleeding control and resusc...

Identifiers

ISSN 2002-7567

eISSN 2002-7567

Publication Cost

There are no article processing charges or publishing fees.

Emergency

Surgery

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