Neurosurgery

744.7k citations
24.8k papers · indexed · active since 1950

Impact in

  • Neurology top 0.05%
    • Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications
    • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
    • Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Genetics top 0.2%
    • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment

Papers in

  • Neurology 11.4k
    • Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications 4.6k
    • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances 3.4k
    • Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment 2.8k
    • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment 2.4k

Neurosurgery

23.2k papers receiving 705.6k citations

Peers

Neurosurgery
Comparison fields: 5 of 242
  • Neurology 353.5k
  • Genetics 85.5k
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine 104.1k
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 100.5k
  • Epidemiology 174.5k
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About Neurosurgery

The 24.8k papers published in Neurosurgery in the last decades have received a total of 744.7k indexed citations . Papers published in Neurosurgery usually cover Neurology (11.4k papers), Genetics (2.6k papers), Pathology and Forensic Medicine (3.5k papers), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (3.4k papers) and Surgery (7.4k papers) specifically the topics of Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications (4.6k papers), Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (3.4k papers), Meningioma and schwannoma management (3.0k papers), Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment (2.8k papers), Cerebrospinal fluid and hydrocephalus (2.6k papers), Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment (2.4k papers), Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques (2.0k papers) and Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology (1.9k papers). The most active scholars publishing in Neurosurgery are Albert L. Rhoton, Laligam N. Sekhar, Robert F. Spetzler, Peter McL. Black, Dachling Pang, L. Dade Lunsford, Douglas Kondziolka, Madjid Samii, Edward R. Laws and John C. Flíckinger.

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