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JOURNAL OF REFRACTIVE SURGERY

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7 Reviews

Open Access SCIE Official Website Submission Website

*Average Peer Review
Sort of slow, 4-8 Week(s)

*Competitiveness
Moderate

CiteScore
5.1

CiteScore Rank

Subject Area	Rank	Percentile
Category: Medicine Subcategory: Surgery	68 / 597
Category: Medicine Subcategory: Ophthalmology	25 / 147

Link to PubMed Central (PMC)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog?term=1081-597X%5BISSN%5D

Indexing (SCI collection)

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
Scopus (CiteScore)

Country/Area of Publication
UNITED STATES

Publication Frequency
Monthly

Publisher
Slack Incorporated

ISSN
1081-597X

E-ISSN
1938-2391

Year Publication Started
1995

Self-citation (2025-2026)
17.20%

Annual Article Volume
144

Gold OA Percentage
27.20%

Open Access Info

APC	APC Waiver	Other Charges
N/A	N/A	N/A

Journal Aim & Scope

The Journal of Refractive Surgery, the official journal of the International Society of Refractive Surgery, a partner of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, has been a monthly peer-reviewed forum for original research, review, and evaluation of refractive and lens-based surgical procedures for more than 30 years. Practical, clinically valuable articles provide readers with the most up-to-date information regarding advances in the field of refractive surgery. Begin to explore the Journal and all of its great benefits such as:

• Columns including “Translational Science,” “Surgical Techniques,” and “Biomechanics”
• Supplemental videos and materials available for many articles
• Access to current articles, as well as several years of archived content
• Articles posted online just 2 months after acceptance.

Web of Science Quartiles

WOS Quartile: Q1

Quartiles By JIF	Collection	Quartile	Rank	Percentage
Category: OPHTHALMOLOGY	SCIE	Q2	30/98
Category: SURGERY	SCIE	Q1	63/321

Quartiles By JCI	Collection	Quartile	Rank	Percentage
Category: OPHTHALMOLOGY	SCIE	Q1	17/98
Category: SURGERY	SCIE	Q1	38/321

*Crowdsourced data

Journals In The Same Subject Area
CiteScore Trends
Self Citation Trends
Annual Article Volume Trends

Journal Title	h-index	CiteScore
ENDOSCOPY	129	3.30
British Journal of Surgery	186	7.20
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY	107	7.80
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION	168	14.40
ANNALS OF SURGERY	284	14.70
ARTHROSCOPY-THE JOURNAL OF ARTHROSCOPIC AND RELATED SURGERY	144	9.30
KNEE SURGERY SPORTS TRAUMATOLOGY ARTHROSCOPY	109	10.10
Asian Journal of Surgery	28	4.40
JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY-AMERICAN VOLUME	235	6.30
CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH	185	6.50