Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

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Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

description Peer-reviewed journal
Area of ​​Expertise Medicine and surgery
language English
publishing company Elsevier ( United States of America )
First edition 2005
Frequency of publication 6 issues a year
Web link Website of the journal
ISSN (print)

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases , abbreviated Surg. Whether it. Relat. Dis. , is a scientific journal published by Elsevier-Verlag. It is the official publication organ of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery , the Brazilian Society for Bariatric Surgery and the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Cirujanos Endoscopistas ; it appears six times a year. Papers are published that deal with surgically induced weight loss in obese patients.

The impact factor in 2014 was 4.066. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks 13th out of 198 journals in the surgery category.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the journal ; accessed on February 10, 2014.
  2. 2014 Journal Citation Reports, Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).