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World Neurosurgery — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of World Neurosurgery is 2.1 (Q2 in Neurosurgery; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 2.1 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Clinical Neurology, Neurosurgery
- Quartile
- Q2 in Neurosurgery
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- sciencedirect.com
Position within the field
Ranked 20 of the 31 journals in Neurosurgery on this site (bottom 50%).
Neurosurgery journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics IF 2.2
- Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases IF 2.1
- Acta Neurochirurgica IF 1.9
- Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery IF 1.9
- Journal of Clinical Neuroscience IF 1.9
- Neurosurgery Clinics of North America IF 1.9
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of World Neurosurgery (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 2.1. 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: Clinical Neurology.