World Neurosurgery

Academic journal

*World Neurosurgery*
Publication details

Discipline	Neurosurgery
Language	English
Edited by	Edward C. Benzel
Former name(s)	Surgical Neurology
History	1973–present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	2.104 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	World Neurosurg.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1878-8750
OCLC no.	565924269
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive Journal page at publisher's website

World Neurosurgery is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1973 as Surgical Neurology before obtaining its current name in 2010. It is published by Elsevier and is the official journal of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.^[1] The editor-in-chief is Edward C. Benzel (Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic).

Editors-in-chief

Editors-in-chief have included:

Paul Bucy (Wake Forest University School of Medicine) and Robert J. White (Case Western Reserve University), 1973-1985
Eben Alexander Jr (Bowman Gray School of Medicine), 1986-1993
James I. Ausman (University of Illinois at Chicago and University of California, Los Angeles), 1994-2009
Michael L.J. Apuzzo (Keck School of Medicine of USC), 2010–2015
Edward C. Benzel (Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, January, 2015–present

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.104.^[2]

References

^ "Homepage, 2014". World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
^ "World Neurosurgery". 2018 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2019.