BiomedicalPublications

The American Journal of Surgery

Elsevier BV·United States·ISSN 0002-9610

Subscription or hybridMedicine

The American Journal of Surgery is published by Elsevier BV as a subscription journal (ISSN 0002-9610). The list article processing charge is $3,830. Its OpenAlex h-index is 254. 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

$3,830

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Checked · How we source APCs

Time to publication

—

Not reported to DOAJ.

h-index

254

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

1.9

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in The American Journal of Surgery is listed at $3,830. The publisher also lists 3,580 EUR, 3,070 GBP, 475,030 JPY. No waiver policy is recorded in our sources, which does not mean none exists. Ask.

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in The American Journal of Surgery, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has risen 60% since 2019, from $2,400 to $3,830.

$0$1.9k$3.8k2019: $2,40020192020: $2,76020202021: $2,91020212022: $3,00020222023: $3,54020232024: $3,65020242025: $3,8302025

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

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

3 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 The American Journal of Surgery publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Gallbladder and Bile Duct DisordersCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesGastrointestinal disorders and treatmentsAppendicitis Diagnosis and ManagementHernia repair and managementSurgical Simulation and TrainingColorectal Cancer Surgical TreatmentsDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesDiversity and Career in MedicineEsophageal and GI Pathology

Publication record

Indexed articles40,127
Total citations892,597
i10-index16,789
Most recent indexed article2026
All ISSNs0002-9610, 1879-1883

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.