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BMC Surgery — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of BMC Surgery is 2.4 (quartile not confirmed; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 2.4 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Surgery
- Quartile
- quartile not confirmed
- Publisher
- BMC
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- bioxbio.com
Position within the field
Ranked 23 of the 36 journals in Surgery on this site (bottom 50%).
Surgery journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences IF 2.5
- Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open IF 2.5
- Injury IF 2.4
- American Journal of Surgery IF 2.3
- Surgery Today IF 2.3
- European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery IF 2.3
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Accepted. Case report / Case series listed as article types. IF 2.4
- OA / APC
- full OA / US$3,190 (£2,390 / US$3,190 / €2,690)
- Submission system
- Springer Nature (SNAPP)
- First decision
- 16 days (publisher-reported)
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of BMC Surgery (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 2.4. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Surgery.