Overview
We are pleased to announce that Acta Neurochirurgica will become a fully open access (OA) on 1 January 2025. As a result, all submissions received from 1st October 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.
Acta Neurochirurgica is a global journal focusing on clinical neurosurgery and relevant neuroscience research.
- Publishes papers on diagnosis, diagnostic techniques, operative surgery, results and postoperative treatment.
- Produces 3-4 supplement volumes per year containing proceedings of international meetings and other relevant material.
- Boasts over 70 years of successful publishing experience.
- Structured into topical subdisciplines for ease of navigation.
- Has a global reach/readership and an international publication record.
- Editor-in-Chief
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- Tiit Mathiesen
- Journal Impact Factor
- 1.9 (2023)
- 5-year Journal Impact Factor
- 2.2 (2023)
- Submission to first decision (median)
- 6 days
- Downloads
- 899,515 (2023)
Latest articles
Journal updates
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Acta Neurochirurgica is transitioning to full open access!
We are excited to announce that Acta Neurochirurgica 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 Acta Neurochirurgica.
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Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 0942-0940
- Print ISSN
- 0001-6268
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- ANVUR
- BFI List
- BIOSIS
- Baidu
- Biological Abstracts
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Clinical Medicine
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBASE
- Google Scholar
- INIS Atomindex
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Medline
- Naver
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series
- 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