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Digestive Surgery
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Digestive Surgery

0253-4886

Published by: Karger Publishers

https://www.karger.com/Journal/Home/223996

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Medicine 1720 47 57 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 53
Documents by Best Scientists*: 63
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 80
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.622
Impact Factor: 1.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Digestive Surgery?

The journal mainly tackles studies in Surgery, Internal medicine, General surgery, Gastroenterology and Radiology. Digestive Surgery covers various topics on Surgery such as Complication, Anastomosis, Retrospective cohort study, Laparoscopy and Resection. Digestive Surgery explores Internal medicine concepts, specifically Cancer, Colorectal cancer and Stomach but expands to research in In patient.

The study on General surgery presented in the journal intersects with the topics under MEDLINE. The research on Gastroenterology featured in it combines topics in other fields like Gastrectomy and Hepatectomy. Radiology and Pancreas are closely related fields of research discussed in the journal.

  • Surgery (53.22%)
  • Internal medicine (27.52%)
  • General surgery (23.42%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Peritoneal adhesions: etiology, pathophysiology, and clinical significance. Recent advances in prevention and management. (521 citations)
  • Liver Anatomy: Portal (and Suprahepatic) or Biliary Segmentation (282 citations)
  • Pancreatic fistula rate after pancreatic resection. The importance of definitions. (256 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Digestive Surgery:

The journal articles explore disciplines such as Surgery, General surgery, Internal medicine, Gastroenterology and MEDLINE. Surgery study tackled in the most cited publications is connected to the field of Cancer. The General surgery research presented in the most cited papers focuses mostly on Treatment outcome and, on occasion, topics in Follow up studies.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Surgery
  • Cancer

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Digestive Surgery facilitates discussions on Internal medicine, Surgery, Gastroenterology, Cancer and Colorectal cancer. The Surgery research presented places emphasis on topics like Propensity score matching, Additional Surgery, Single Center, Laparoscopy and Endoscopic submucosal dissection. Some problems in Gastroenterology that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Analysis of variance, Asymptomatic, Cohort study and Risk factor.

The Cancer works featured in Digestive Surgery incorporate elements from Stage (cooking), Rectum and Stomach. While it focused on Colorectal cancer, it was also able to explore topics like Poor prognosis, Open surgery and Sepsis. Concepts in Cancer surgery, as well as related topics in General surgery, are covered in the Early cancer research presented in the journal.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Surgical Resection for Crohn's and Cancer: A Comparison of Disease-Specific Risk Factors and Outcomes. (2 citations)
  • Selective Resection of Type 1 Gastric Neuroendocrine Neoplasms and the Risk of Progression in an Endoscopic Surveillance Programme. (2 citations)
  • Clinical Outcomes of Proximal Gastrectomy versus Total Gastrectomy for Proximal Gastric Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. (2 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Digestive Surgery (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Markus W. Büchler (61 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Helmut Friess (40 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • M.W. Büchler (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Leslie H. Blumgart (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Thomas M. van Gulik (31 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Digestive Surgery (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Amsterdam (47 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Bern (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam (30 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Verona (22 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Heidelberg University (21 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 11.11% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 21.88% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.25% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 12.50% of all publications and 59.38% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Long-Term Impact of Iatrogenic Bile Duct Injury.

    Anne Marthe Schreuder;Olivier R Busch;Marc G Besselink;Povilas Ignatavicius

    (2020)
    112 Citations
  • The Preoperative Prognostic Nutritional Index Predicts Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes of Patients with Stage II/III Gastric Cancer: Analysis of a Multi-Institution Dataset.

    Masahiro Sasahara;Mitsuro Kanda;Seiji Ito;Yoshinari Mochizuki

    (2020)
    50 Citations
  • Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy.

    Pieter Christiaan van der Sluis;Dimitrios Schizas;Theodore Liakakos;Richard van Hillegersberg

    (2020)
    44 Citations
  • Management of Pancreatic Cystic Lesions.

    Giampaolo Perri;Giovanni Marchegiani;Isabella Frigerio;Christos G Dervenis

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Love (Pancreatic Surgery) in the Time of Cholera (COVID-19).

    Giovanni Marchegiani;Salvatore Paiella;Giuseppe Malleo;Luca Landoni

    (2020)
    31 Citations
  • C-Reactive Protein-Lymphocyte Ratio Identifies Patients at Low Risk for Major Morbidity after Oesophagogastric Resection for Cancer

    Colm Neary;Peter McAnena;Oliver McAnena;Oliver McAnena;Michael Kerin

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Surgical Oncology in Europe: Results of a European Survey

    Christian Stöss;Marcella Steffani;Ilaria Pergolini;Daniel Hartmann

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Laparoscopic Hepatectomy (with or without Robotic Assistance) versus Radiofrequency Ablation as a Minimally Invasive Treatment for Very Early-Stage or Early-Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

    Charing Ching-Ning Chong;Kit-Fai Lee;Cheuk-Man Chu;Anthony Wing-Hung Chan

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • The Impact of Sarcopenia on Postoperative Course following Pancreatoduodenectomy: Single-Center Experience of 110 Consecutive Cases.

    Leonardo Centonze;Stefano Di Sandro;Andrea Lauterio;Riccardo De Carlis

    (2020)
    20 Citations
  • Measurement of Body Composition in Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Recommendations for Future Study Design

    (2022)
    18 Citations

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