| Discipline | Surgery |
|---|---|
| Language | English, French |
| Edited by | Edward J. Harvey, Chad Ball |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1957-present |
| Publisher | Canadian Medical Association (Canada) |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 2.544 (2017) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Can. J. Surg. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 1488-2310 (print) 1488-2310 (web) |
| OCLC no. | 45048853 |
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TheCanadian Journal of Surgery is a bimonthlypeer-reviewedopen accessmedical journal coveringsurgery. It was established in 1957 and is published by theCanadian Medical Association. The currenteditors-in-chief are Edward J. Harvey and Chad Ball. The journal is sponsored by theCanadian Association of General Surgeons,Canadian Society for Vascular Surgery,Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons, andCanadian Society of Surgical Oncology.
The journal was established as a result of a collaboration between Canadian departments ofsurgery, theRoyal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and theCanadian Medical Association. In 1957, leading surgical groups asked theCanadian Medical Association to undertake the publishing of the journal. The foundingeditorial board consisted of the chairs of surgery at the 12 medical schools in Canada at the time. The president of theRoyal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada chaired the board.[1] The first issue was published on 1 October 1957. TheRoyal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada subsidized the journal until 1991 when it withdrew in favor of its own journal,Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.[2]Jean Couture then arranged for theCanadian Association of General Surgeons to become the major sponsor of the journal.[2] Currently the Canadian Journal of Surgery, at 60 years of continuous publication, is the longest surviving journal of record of surgery in 300 years of organised surgery inCanada.[3]
Journal Citation Reports shows that as of the end of 2016, theCanadian Journal of Surgery had published 5917 citable articles. The average citation per article was 6.9 so that itsImpact Factor increased yearly from 0.5 in 2006 to 2.544 in 2017. The journal'sh-index is 55 with a normalizedEigenfactor score of 0.42.[4]
The following persons are or have been editor-in-chief of the journal:[5]
