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Annals of Surgery, the world"s most highly referenced surgery journal, provides the international medical community with information on significant contributions [...]

Annals of Surgery, the world"s most highly referenced surgery journal, provides the international medical community with information on significant contributions to the advancement of surgical science and practice. Surgeons look to Annals of Surgery first for innovations in practice and technique. Special editorial features include "Advances in Surgical Technique", which provides up-to-the-minute coverage of current clinical issues, and monthly review articles that cover the most current practice concerns. (source)

SJR indicator vs. Cites per Doc (2y)

The SJR indicator measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is. Cites per Doc. (2y) measures the scientific impact of an average article published in the journal, it is computed using the same formula that journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters).

Citation vs. Self-Citation

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.

Cites per Document vs. External Cites per Document

Evolution of the number of total cites per document and external cites per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.

Cites per Document in 2, 3 and 4 years windows

Evolution of Citations per Document to a journal's published documents during the two, three and four previous years. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country.

Journal's Citable vs. Non Citable Documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows.

Journal's Cited vs. Uncited Documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

Indicators	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
SJR	2,354	3,001	3,190	2,958	2,803	2,803	2,922	3,090	3,571	3,224	3,670	3,457	3,359
Total Documents	233	227	221	233	248	253	250	393	379	438	467	488	557
Total Docs. (3years)	630	666	696	681	681	702	734	751	896	1.022	1.210	1.284	1.393
Total References	6.540	7.046	6.786	6.984	7.679	7.597	7.765	7.881	9.181	9.752	11.280	11.292	12.061
Total Cites (3years)	3.274	3.846	4.751	4.800	4.721	4.717	5.407	5.852	6.507	6.481	6.757	6.977	7.195
Self Cites (3years)	125	182	193	189	177	176	180	234	248	282	366	361	380
Citable Docs. (3years)	532	561	604	595	602	627	655	670	677	709	743	795	854
Cites / Doc. (4years)	6,15	7,17	7,94	8,16	8,33	7,87	8,41	8,92	9,37	9,90	9,40	8,93	8,99
Cites / Doc. (3years)	6,15	6,86	7,87	8,07	7,84	7,52	8,25	8,73	9,61	9,14	9,09	8,78	8,43
Cites / Doc. (2years)	5,28	6,44	7,52	7,33	6,83	6,87	7,71	9,02	8,41	8,58	8,59	7,83	7,66
References / Doc.	28,07	31,04	30,71	29,97	30,96	30,03	31,06	20,05	24,22	22,26	24,15	23,14	21,65
Cited Docs.	497	530	585	575	587	595	632	649	677	729	776	829	867
Uncited Docs.	133	136	111	106	94	107	102	102	219	293	434	455	526
% International Collaboration	8,15	7,49	10,41	3,86	8,47	14,62	16,80	6,87	15,04	14,38	16,92	11,68	11,85