Surgical Innovation


Surgical Innovation is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of Surgery. The journal's editors are Adrian E. Park, MD, FRCS and Lee Swanstrom, MD. It has been in publication since 1994 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

Scope

Surgical Innovation focuses on minimally invasive surgical techniques, new instruments and endoscopes, and new technologies. The journal aims to help surgeons learn new techniques, understand and adapt to new technologies, maintain surgical competencies, and apply surgical outcomes data to their practices.

Abstracting and indexing

Surgical Innovation is abstracted and indexed in, among other databases: SCOPUS, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2018 impact factor is 1.472, ranking it 131 out of 203 journals in the category ‘Surgery’.