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Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open is 2.5 (quartile not confirmed; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 2.5 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Surgery
- Quartile
- quartile not confirmed
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- tsaco.bmj.com
Position within the field
Ranked 22 of the 36 journals in Surgery on this site (bottom 50%).
Surgery journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Hernia IF 2.7
- Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences IF 2.5
- BMC Surgery IF 2.4
- Injury IF 2.4
- American Journal of Surgery IF 2.3
- Surgery Today IF 2.3
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Limited (short formats such as Image or Letter only, or by exception). Single cases not allowed as Brief Report; Challenges format only (800 words, 3 figures, no references)
- Article types
- Original Research / Systematic Review / Review / Guidelines / Brief Report / Challenges in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
- Word limit (original)
- 4,000 words
- Figures/tables
- Up to 6 figures/tables
- References
- 50
- OA / APC
- full OA / US$3,270 (Challenges US$990. AAST and other society members US$2,230)
- Reporting guidelines
- PRISMA required, EQUATOR recommended
- Submission system
- ScholarOne
- First decision
- 42 days (publisher-reported)
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 2.5. 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.