International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery

The International Journal for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IJCARS) is a peer-reviewed journal to provide a platform closing the gap between medical and technical disciplines and to encourage interdisciplinary research and development activities in an international environment. The focus of the journal is on R&D areas relating to digital imaging methods and computer-assisted diagnostic and therapeutic workflows that match and enhance the skill levels of health care professionals. IJCARS invites submissions on topics in information sciences, ICT, and mechatronic systems design as well as clinical application fields such as: - Medical imaging, e.g. CT, MR, US, SPECT, PET, DR, molecular imaging, and virtual endoscopy - Image processing and display - 3D, 4D, and 5D imaging - Hospital-wide PACS and telemedicine - Computer applications for e.g. neurosurgery, head and neck, orthopaedics, ear nose and throat, cardiovascular and thoracoabdominal surgery, and plastic/reconstructive surgery - Image-guided therapy - Surgical robotics and instrumentation - Surgical navigation - 3D modeling and rapid prototyping - Postoperative result assessment - Surgical education and training - Haptics and multimodal devices in medical applications - Methods of validation and verification - CAD for breast, prostate, chest, colon, skeletal, liver, brain, and vascular imaging - Cranial and maxillofacial image-guided surgery - Surgical workflow - Surgical DICOM and IHE - Digital operating room

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Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

Category	Year	Quartile
Biomedical Engineering	2007	Q4
Biomedical Engineering	2008	Q4
Biomedical Engineering	2009	Q3
Biomedical Engineering	2010	Q3
Biomedical Engineering	2011	Q3
Biomedical Engineering	2012	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2013	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2014	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2015	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2016	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2017	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2018	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2019	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2020	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2021	Q1
Biomedical Engineering	2022	Q2
Biomedical Engineering	2023	Q2
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2007	Q3
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2008	Q3
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2009	Q3
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2010	Q2
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2011	Q2
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2012	Q2
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2013	Q2
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2014	Q2
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2015	Q2
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2016	Q2
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2017	Q1
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2018	Q1
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2019	Q1
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2020	Q1
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2021	Q1
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2022	Q1
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design	2023	Q1
Computer Science Applications	2007	Q4
Computer Science Applications	2008	Q4
Computer Science Applications	2009	Q4
Computer Science Applications	2010	Q3
Computer Science Applications	2011	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2012	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2013	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2014	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2015	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2016	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2017	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2018	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2019	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2020	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2021	Q1
Computer Science Applications	2022	Q2
Computer Science Applications	2023	Q2
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2007	Q4
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2008	Q4
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2009	Q4
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2010	Q3
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2011	Q2
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2012	Q2
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2013	Q2
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2014	Q2
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2015	Q2
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2016	Q2
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2017	Q1
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2018	Q1
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2019	Q2
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2020	Q1
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2021	Q2
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2022	Q1
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	2023	Q2
Health Informatics	2007	Q4
Health Informatics	2008	Q4
Health Informatics	2009	Q4
Health Informatics	2010	Q3
Health Informatics	2011	Q3
Health Informatics	2012	Q2
Health Informatics	2013	Q2
Health Informatics	2014	Q2
Health Informatics	2015	Q2
Health Informatics	2016	Q2
Health Informatics	2017	Q2
Health Informatics	2018	Q2
Health Informatics	2019	Q2
Health Informatics	2020	Q2
Health Informatics	2021	Q1
Health Informatics	2022	Q2
Health Informatics	2023	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2007	Q3
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2008	Q3
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2009	Q3
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2010	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2011	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2012	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2013	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2014	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2015	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2016	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2017	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2018	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2019	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2020	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2021	Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2022	Q2
Medicine (miscellaneous)	2023	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2007	Q3
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2008	Q3
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2009	Q3
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2010	Q3
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2011	Q3
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2012	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2013	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2014	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2015	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2016	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2017	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2018	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2019	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2020	Q2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2021	Q1
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2022	Q1
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging	2023	Q1
Surgery	2007	Q3
Surgery	2008	Q3
Surgery	2009	Q3
Surgery	2010	Q3
Surgery	2011	Q2
Surgery	2012	Q2
Surgery	2013	Q2
Surgery	2014	Q2
Surgery	2015	Q2
Surgery	2016	Q2
Surgery	2017	Q2
Surgery	2018	Q2
Surgery	2019	Q2
Surgery	2020	Q2
Surgery	2021	Q1
Surgery	2022	Q1
Surgery	2023	Q1

SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It 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.

Year	SJR
2007	0.178
2008	0.170
2009	0.198
2010	0.361
2011	0.403
2012	0.465
2013	0.557
2014	0.551
2015	0.524
2016	0.565
2017	0.614
2018	0.625
2019	0.679
2020	0.701
2021	1.000
2022	0.831
2023	0.853

Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

Year	Documents
2006	439
2007	40
2008	82
2009	65
2010	67
2011	80
2012	94
2013	93
2014	102
2015	181
2016	202
2017	203
2018	183
2019	211
2020	202
2021	220
2022	228
2023	247

Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per document	Year	Value
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2006	0.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2007	0.360
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2008	0.315
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2009	0.485
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2010	0.573
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2011	1.563
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2012	1.813
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2013	2.078
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2014	2.156
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2015	1.997
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2016	2.051
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2017	2.384
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2018	2.487
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2019	2.685
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2020	3.303
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2021	4.113
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2022	3.960
Cites / Doc. (4 years)	2023	3.808
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2006	0.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2007	0.360
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2008	0.315
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2009	0.485
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2010	1.412
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2011	1.593
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2012	2.009
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2013	1.959
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2014	2.030
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2015	2.104
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2016	2.082
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2017	2.342
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2018	2.490
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2019	2.825
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2020	3.519
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2021	4.089
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2022	3.956
Cites / Doc. (3 years)	2023	3.498
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2006	0.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2007	0.360
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2008	0.315
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2009	1.189
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2010	1.449
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2011	1.773
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2012	1.714
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2013	1.868
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2014	2.064
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2015	2.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2016	1.989
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2017	2.225
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2018	2.516
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2019	3.036
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2020	3.437
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2021	3.954
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2022	3.393
Cites / Doc. (2 years)	2023	3.098

Total Cites

Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

Cites	Year	Value
Self Cites	2006	0
Self Cites	2007	13
Self Cites	2008	15
Self Cites	2009	16
Self Cites	2010	13
Self Cites	2011	20
Self Cites	2012	32
Self Cites	2013	34
Self Cites	2014	54
Self Cites	2015	75
Self Cites	2016	98
Self Cites	2017	146
Self Cites	2018	123
Self Cites	2019	128
Self Cites	2020	140
Self Cites	2021	131
Self Cites	2022	132
Self Cites	2023	127
Total Cites	2006	0
Total Cites	2007	158
Total Cites	2008	151
Total Cites	2009	272
Total Cites	2010	264
Total Cites	2011	341
Total Cites	2012	426
Total Cites	2013	472
Total Cites	2014	542
Total Cites	2015	608
Total Cites	2016	783
Total Cites	2017	1136
Total Cites	2018	1459
Total Cites	2019	1661
Total Cites	2020	2101
Total Cites	2021	2437
Total Cites	2022	2504
Total Cites	2023	2274

External Cites per Doc

Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

Cites	Year	Value
External Cites per document	2006	0
External Cites per document	2007	0.330
External Cites per document	2008	0.284
External Cites per document	2009	0.456
External Cites per document	2010	1.342
External Cites per document	2011	1.500
External Cites per document	2012	1.858
External Cites per document	2013	1.817
External Cites per document	2014	1.828
External Cites per document	2015	1.844
External Cites per document	2016	1.822
External Cites per document	2017	2.041
External Cites per document	2018	2.280
External Cites per document	2019	2.607
External Cites per document	2020	3.285
External Cites per document	2021	3.869
External Cites per document	2022	3.747
External Cites per document	2023	3.303
Cites per document	2006	0.000
Cites per document	2007	0.360
Cites per document	2008	0.315
Cites per document	2009	0.485
Cites per document	2010	1.412
Cites per document	2011	1.593
Cites per document	2012	2.009
Cites per document	2013	1.959
Cites per document	2014	2.030
Cites per document	2015	2.104
Cites per document	2016	2.082
Cites per document	2017	2.342
Cites per document	2018	2.490
Cites per document	2019	2.825
Cites per document	2020	3.519
Cites per document	2021	4.089
Cites per document	2022	3.956
Cites per document	2023	3.498

% 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; that is including more than one country address.

Year	International Collaboration
2006	13.21
2007	15.00
2008	25.61
2009	16.92
2010	14.93
2011	18.75
2012	23.40
2013	20.43
2014	25.49
2015	23.20
2016	32.67
2017	26.60
2018	34.43
2019	29.38
2020	31.19
2021	24.09
2022	23.68
2023	21.86

Citable documents

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 vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

Documents	Year	Value
Non-citable documents	2006	0
Non-citable documents	2007	2
Non-citable documents	2008	2
Non-citable documents	2009	3
Non-citable documents	2010	1
Non-citable documents	2011	3
Non-citable documents	2012	2
Non-citable documents	2013	2
Non-citable documents	2014	0
Non-citable documents	2015	5
Non-citable documents	2016	7
Non-citable documents	2017	9
Non-citable documents	2018	9
Non-citable documents	2019	9
Non-citable documents	2020	14
Non-citable documents	2021	12
Non-citable documents	2022	15
Non-citable documents	2023	11
Citable documents	2006	0
Citable documents	2007	437
Citable documents	2008	477
Citable documents	2009	558
Citable documents	2010	186
Citable documents	2011	211
Citable documents	2012	210
Citable documents	2013	239
Citable documents	2014	267
Citable documents	2015	284
Citable documents	2016	369
Citable documents	2017	476
Citable documents	2018	577
Citable documents	2019	579
Citable documents	2020	583
Citable documents	2021	584
Citable documents	2022	618
Citable documents	2023	639

Cited documents

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.

Documents	Year	Value
Uncited documents	2006	0
Uncited documents	2007	344
Uncited documents	2008	380
Uncited documents	2009	420
Uncited documents	2010	78
Uncited documents	2011	85
Uncited documents	2012	73
Uncited documents	2013	68
Uncited documents	2014	77
Uncited documents	2015	75
Uncited documents	2016	109
Uncited documents	2017	117
Uncited documents	2018	156
Uncited documents	2019	151
Uncited documents	2020	129
Uncited documents	2021	95
Uncited documents	2022	113
Uncited documents	2023	124
Cited documents	2006	0
Cited documents	2007	95
Cited documents	2008	99
Cited documents	2009	141
Cited documents	2010	109
Cited documents	2011	129
Cited documents	2012	139
Cited documents	2013	173
Cited documents	2014	190
Cited documents	2015	214
Cited documents	2016	267
Cited documents	2017	368
Cited documents	2018	430
Cited documents	2019	437
Cited documents	2020	468
Cited documents	2021	501
Cited documents	2022	520
Cited documents	2023	526

% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

Year	Female Percent
2006	12.31
2007	15.12
2008	15.06
2009	15.17
2010	13.49
2011	20.00
2012	19.82
2013	16.59
2014	16.39
2015	18.59
2016	20.39
2017	17.43
2018	20.29
2019	21.39
2020	25.14
2021	24.82
2022	25.02
2023	24.15

Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

Documents	Year	Value
Overton	2006	2
Overton	2007	0
Overton	2008	0
Overton	2009	3
Overton	2010	3
Overton	2011	2
Overton	2012	7
Overton	2013	7
Overton	2014	2
Overton	2015	1
Overton	2016	5
Overton	2017	3
Overton	2018	4
Overton	2019	5
Overton	2020	1
Overton	2021	0
Overton	2022	0
Overton	2023	0