Asian Journal of Surgery

Asian Journal of Surgery is the monthly open-access journal of the Asian Surgical Association, published by Elsevier since 2002 and launched in 1978, reporting clinical and experimental surgery with an Asia-Pacific focus, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.2.《亚洲外科杂志》（Asian Journal of Surgery）是亚洲外科学会（Asian Surgical Association）的月刊与开放获取会刊，1978 年创刊，2002 年起由（Elsevier）出版，刊载以亚太地区为重点的临床与实验外科研究，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.2。

Scope

• The journal concentrates on state-of-the-art surgical innovation across the entire spectrum of clinical and experimental surgery, rather than on routine case documentation.本刊聚焦覆盖临床与实验外科全谱系的前沿术式创新，而非常规病例记录。
• Its editorial structure is specialty based, with editors and board groups for bariatric and metabolic, cardiovascular, endocrine, gastrointestinal, head and neck, hepato-biliary-pancreatic, neurosurgery, paediatric, plastic, thoracic, urological, colorectal and breast surgery.编辑部按专科分设编辑与编委组，涵盖减重代谢、心血管、内分泌、胃肠、头颈、肝胆胰、神经、小儿、整形、胸外、泌尿、结直肠与乳腺外科。
• Work from the Asia-Pacific region is the core remit, and the journal positions itself as a medium for developments in surgery and related disciplines in the region and beyond.亚太地区的研究构成本刊的核心收稿范围，刊物自我定位为该地区及更广范围外科及相关学科进展的交流平台。
• Original articles and review articles form the main content, with case reports accepted only when they are of exceptional and unique importance.原创论文与综述构成主要内容，病例报告仅在具有独特且罕见的重要性时才被接受。
• Because the Asian Surgical Association is joined by the Taiwan Robotic Surgery Association and the Taiwan Society of Coloproctology as sponsoring societies, robotic and minimally invasive colorectal work has a stable editorial home.由于台湾机器人手术医学会与台湾大肠直肠医学会同为办刊学会，机器人与微创结直肠外科研究在本刊有稳定的编辑归属。
• The journal is indexed in SCIE, Medline and PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Current Contents, CAB Abstracts and DOAJ, and appears on ScienceDirect.本刊被 SCIE、Medline、PubMed、Scopus、Embase、Current Contents、CAB Abstracts 及 DOAJ 收录，并在 ScienceDirect 平台发布。
• Authors receive free PDFs and work under a liberal copyright policy, and all content is published open access under a CC BY licence with an article processing charge of 1,200 US dollars.作者可获得免费论文电子版，版权政策较为宽松；全部内容以（CC BY）许可开放获取发表，文章处理费为 1,200 美元。

History

• The journal was launched in 1978 as the official publication of the Asian Surgical Association, edited under the society's direction, which still holds the copyright.本刊于 1978 年创刊，作为亚洲外科学会（Asian Surgical Association）的官方刊物，由学会主导编辑事务，版权至今仍归学会所有。
• It was carried by Springer at the turn of the century, with volume 23 appearing in 2000, and moved to Elsevier from volume 25 in 2002, where the DOI stem 10.1016/j.asjsur took over.世纪之交本刊由（Springer）发行，2000 年为第 23 卷；2002 年第 25 卷起改由（Elsevier）出版，论文标识符随之改用 10.1016 前缀。
• Frequency rose in stages, from six issues a year in volumes 40 and 41 to twelve issues from volume 42 in 2019, so that volume 47 covered 2024 and volume 48 covered 2025.刊期分阶段扩充：第 40、41 卷每年六期，2019 年第 42 卷起改为每年十二期的月刊，2024 年为第 47 卷，2025 年为第 48 卷。
• The title is now fully open access under CC BY, with copyright held by the Asian Surgical Association, and the Directory of Open Access Journals records open access publication from 2016.本刊现为（CC BY）完全开放获取期刊，版权由亚洲外科学会持有，开放获取期刊目录记载其开放获取起始年为 2016 年。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.2, after 3.8 in 2024, 2.808 in 2022 and 2.767 in 2021, a steep rise over four reported years.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.2，2024 年为 3.8，2022 年为 2.808，2021 年为 2.767，四个统计年度内升幅显著。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports it ranks 18th of 321 journals in Surgery, at the 94.5th percentile of the category, while its Journal Citation Indicator percentile is 72.4.在 2025 年期刊引用报告中，本刊在外科类 321 种期刊中列第 18 位，处于该类别第 94.5 百分位；其期刊引文指标的百分位为 72.4。

Editors

• Jin-Tung Liang of the Department of Surgery at National Taiwan University Hospital is Editor-in-Chief, with a clinical focus on colorectal cancer and minimally invasive and robotic surgery.台湾大学医学院附设医院（National Taiwan University Hospital）外科部的（Jin-Tung Liang）任主编，临床方向为结直肠癌以及微创与机器人手术。
• Meng-Kun Tsai, also at National Taiwan University Hospital, serves as Executive Editor and runs the day-to-day handling of manuscripts.同属台大医院的（Meng-Kun Tsai）任执行编辑，负责稿件处理的日常事务。
• Gyu-Seog Choi of Kyungpook National University Medical Center in South Korea and Tsann-Long Hwang of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taoyuan, Taiwan, serve as Co-Editors.韩国庆北大学医学中心（Kyungpook National University Medical Center）的（Gyu-Seog Choi）与台湾桃园长庚纪念医院（Chang Gung Memorial Hospital）的（Tsann-Long Hwang）任共同编辑。
• Each specialty has its own section editor, among them Wei-Jei Lee for bariatric and metabolic surgery, Shoei-Shen Wang for cardiovascular surgery, Cheng-Chung Wu for hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery and Shih-Chieh Chueh for urology.各专科均设分科编辑，例如减重代谢外科的（Wei-Jei Lee）、心血管外科的（Shoei-Shen Wang）、肝胆胰外科的（Cheng-Chung Wu）与泌尿外科的（Shih-Chieh Chueh）。
• Board members come from Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, mainland China, Malaysia and India as well as the United States and the United Kingdom, giving the title a genuinely regional base.编委来自台湾、韩国、日本、新加坡、香港、中国大陆、马来西亚与印度，以及美国与英国，使本刊具备真正的区域基础。
• Submission runs through Elsevier's Editorial Manager, and the journal reports its scope, article types and ethics requirements in a detailed guide for authors.投稿经（Elsevier）的（Editorial Manager）系统提交，刊物在详尽的作者指南中公布收稿范围、文章类型与伦理要求。