World Neurosurgery Explained

World Neurosurgery
Formernames:	Surgical Neurology
Cover:	World Neurosurgery March-April 2014 journal cover, World Neurosurgery.jpg
Editor:	Edward C. Benzel
Discipline:	Neurosurgery
Abbreviation:	World Neurosurg.
Publisher:	Elsevier
Frequency:	Monthly
History:	1973–present
Impact:	2.104
Impact-Year:	2020
Website:	http://www.worldneurosurgery.org
Link1:	http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/wneu/current
Link1-Name:	Online access
Link2:	http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/wneu/issues
Link2-Name:	Online archive
Link3:	http://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-neurosurgery/
Link3-Name:	Journal page at publisher's website
Oclc:	565924269
Issn:	1878-8750

World Neurosurgery is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1973 as Surgical Neurology before obtaining its current name in 2010. It is published by Elsevier and is the official journal of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.^[1] The editor-in-chief is Edward C. Benzel (Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic).

Editors-in-chief

Editors-in-chief have included:

• Paul Bucy (Wake Forest University School of Medicine) and Robert J. White (Case Western Reserve University), 1973-1985
• Eben Alexander Jr (Bowman Gray School of Medicine), 1986-1993
• James I. Ausman (University of Illinois at Chicago and University of California, Los Angeles), 1994-2009
• Michael L.J. Apuzzo (Keck School of Medicine of USC), 2010–2015
• Edward C. Benzel (Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, January, 2015–present

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.104.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Homepage, 2014. World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. 2 May 2014.
2. Book: 2019 . World Neurosurgery . 2018 Journal Citation Reports . . Science . Web of Science.