BiomedicalPublications

Annals of Surgery Open

Wolters Kluwer·United States·ISSN 2691-3593

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

Cost to publish

$2,000

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Time to publication

9 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

26

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

2.3

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Annals of Surgery Open is listed at $2,000. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

Peer review and licensing

Review modelPeer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC-ND
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningNot reported
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

6 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredPeer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Annals of Surgery Open publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology ResearchSurgical Simulation and TrainingDiversity and Career in MedicineColorectal Cancer Surgical TreatmentsCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and PrognosisGallbladder and Bile Duct DisordersCholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer StudiesPancreatitis Pathology and TreatmentOrgan Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes

Publication record

Indexed articles695
Total citations3,818
i10-index112
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2020
All ISSNs2691-3593

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.