BiomedicalPublications

Annals of Surgery

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins·United States·ISSN 0003-4932

Subscription or hybridMedicine

Annals of Surgery is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins as a subscription journal (ISSN 0003-4932). No open-access article processing charge is listed; publishing is typically via subscription. Its OpenAlex h-index is 456. Figures on this page are sourced from OpenAlex and DOAJ and should be confirmed on the journal’s own site before submission.

Cost to publish

Subscription

No open-access fee found. Publishing is typically free to the author.

Checked · How we source APCs

Time to publication

—

Not reported to DOAJ.

h-index

456

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

5.1

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

We could not find a published fee for Annals of Surgery. As a subscription or hybrid journal, publishing is normally free unless you choose the open-access option.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelNot reported
LicenceNot reported
Author keeps copyrightNot reported
Plagiarism screeningNot reported
Editorial boardNot linked in DOAJ
LanguagesNot reported

Verification checks

2 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 JournalsNot listed. Many legitimate subscription journals are not in DOAJ, so this alone means little.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredNo declared model found in DOAJ.
  • 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 publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology ResearchCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesGallbladder and Bile Duct DisordersEsophageal and GI PathologyColorectal Cancer Surgical TreatmentsGastrointestinal disorders and treatmentsHepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and PrognosisOrgan Transplantation Techniques and OutcomesPancreatitis Pathology and TreatmentHernia repair and management

Publication record

Indexed articles37,855
Total citations1,841,588
i10-index19,551
Most recent indexed article2026
All ISSNs0003-4932, 1528-1140

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.