Surgery Today

Aims & Scope

Surgery Today is the official journal of the Japan Surgical Society.

The main purpose of the journal is to provide a place for the publication of high-quality papers documenting recent advances and new developments in all fields of surgery, both clinical and experimental.

The journal welcomes original papers, review articles, and short communications, as well as short technical reports("How to do it").

The "How to do it" section will includes short articles on methods or techniques recommended for practical surgery.

Papers submitted to the journal are reviewed by an international editorial board.

Field of interest: All fields of surgery.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.6
2024	1.70

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.656

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	77

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	8758

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1190

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Extended Clavien-Dindo classification of surgical complications: Japan Clinical Oncology Group postoperative complications criteria

  Citation: 640

  Authors: Hiroshi, Yukinori, Kenichi, Hiroyuki, Yukihide, Norikazu, Yasuhiro, Toyomi, Akira, Haruhiko, Mitsuru

• Recent progress in multidisciplinary treatment for patients with esophageal cancer

  Citation: 321

  Authors: Masayuki, Reiko, Ryotaro, Tasuku, Keita, Akihiko, Yu

• Tissue engineered myoblast sheets improved cardiac function sufficiently to discontinue LVAS in a patient with DCM: report of a case

  Citation: 294

  Authors: Yoshiki, Shigeru, Taichi, Tomoyuki, Akifumi, Atsuhiro, Tatsuya, Teruo

• Using the Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) global rating scale to evaluate the skills of surgical trainees in the operating room

  Citation: 208

  Authors: Hiroaki, Naoki, Masanori, Takeshi, Junya, Yoich, Shigeru, Shuji, Hidenori, Wataru

• Acute Mesenteric Ischemia: The Challenge of Gastroenterology

  Citation: 206

  Authors: Hiroshi

• Adhesions after abdominal surgery: a systematic review of the incidence, distribution and severity

  Citation: 199

  Authors: Koji, Hutan, Emmanouil, Hirotoshi, Yuko, Thanos, Ara

• Prognostic nutritional Index: A tool to predict the biological aggressiveness of gastric carcinoma

  Citation: 190

  Authors: Tadahiro, Mizuki, Takashi, Akito, Hideaki, Takahiro

• Estimation of physiologic ability and surgical stress (E-PASS) as a new prediction scoring system for postoperative morbidity and mortality following elective gastrointestinal surgery

  Citation: 185

  Authors: Yoshio, Satoshi, Michio

• The prognostic nutritional index can be a prognostic indicator in colorectal carcinoma

  Citation: 175

  Authors: Tadahiro, Mayuko, Tomohiro, Emiko, Takashi, Akito, Takahiro

• Compartment-oriented microdissection of regional lymph nodes in medullary thyroid carcinoma

  Citation: 163

  Authors: Henning, Iris, Georg Friedrich, Jörg, Eckart, Heinz, Rudolf

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