Overview
Announcement
We are pleased to announce that Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery will become a fully open access (OA) on 1 January 2025. As a result, all submissions received from 1st August 2024 are subject to an article publication charge (APC) if accepted and published in the journal (unless a waiver is applied). Please see our FAQs which can be found at the bottom of this page for more information on APCs, funding options, waivers and the journal's transition to fully open access.
Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, reputed as the world’s oldest medical Surgery Journal is focused on publishing relevant clinical and basic surgical research.
- Presents the best results in the field of clinical surgery and basic surgical research.
- Original articles and reviews report clinical data from general, gastrointestinal, endocrine and transplantation surgery.
- Published exclusively in English, providing an international discussion forum for its global readership.
- Accepted articles published in final citable form in issue an average of 2 weeks post-acceptance
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Christoph Michalski,
- Pascal Probst
- Editor-in-charge
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- Christoph Michalski
- Journal Impact Factor
- 2.1 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 2.4 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 7 days
- Downloads
- 605,487 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery is transitioning to full open access!
We are excited to announce that Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery will become a fully open access (OA) journal in 2025. This means that as of January 2025, we will only be publishing open access articles, meaning content will be freely available to readers worldwide, enabling the widest possible dissemination and reuse.
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Transition to fully OA FAQ
Frequently asked questions regarding the transition to fully open access and what this means for the Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1435-2451
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ANVUR
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBASE
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Medline
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Pathway Studio
- Portico
- ProQuest
- Reaxys
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- Semantic Scholar
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information