Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society

Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society is the official journal of the Korean Neurosurgical Society, a Seoul-based society founded in 1961, and it has carried clinical and laboratory work in neurosurgery since its first issue on 31 October 1972.《大韩神经外科学会杂志》是大韩神经外科学会的会刊，该学会 1961 年成立于首尔，刊物自 1972 年 10 月 31 日的首期起刊载神经外科的临床与实验室研究。

It appears six times a year, on the first day of January, March, May, July, September and November, and the 2026 volume is the sixty-ninth in an unbroken sequence.刊物每年出版 6 期，单月首日发行，每隔一个月出一期，2026 年出版至第 69 卷，卷号自创刊起连续未断。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9 against a five-year value of 1.7, the Journal Citation Indicator is 0.62, and every article is free to read under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence.其 2025 年影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子为 1.7，期刊引证指标为 0.62，全部论文以知识共享署名非商业性使用许可免费开放阅读。

Scope

• The stated aim is to let neurosurgeons around the world enrich their knowledge of patient management, education and clinical or experimental research, and thereby their professionalism.刊物自述的目标是让世界各地的神经外科医师充实患者管理、医学教育与临床或实验研究方面的知识，并借此提升其专业水准。
• Cerebrovascular work forms the largest clinical stream, taking in cerebral aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation, moyamoya disease, carotid stenosis and intracerebral haemorrhage, together with the bypass techniques used to restore perfusion.脑血管病是最大的临床板块，涉及脑动脉瘤与动静脉畸形，也涉及烟雾病与颈动脉狭窄，还包括脑出血以及用于恢复灌注的搭桥技术。
• Neuro-oncology covers glioma grading and molecular markers, meningioma, brain metastasis and skull base tumours, and it follows the surgical adjuncts of neuronavigation, intraoperative mapping and fluorescence guidance.神经肿瘤学覆盖胶质瘤分级与分子标志物，也覆盖脑膜瘤与脑转移瘤，还包括颅底肿瘤以及神经导航、术中定位与荧光引导等手术辅助手段。
• Skull base surgery receives steady attention, from endoscopic endonasal approaches to the petrous apex and cavernous sinus through to the reconstruction of dural defects after resection.颅底外科长期受到关注，从内镜经鼻入路延伸到岩尖与海绵窦区域，也延伸到肿瘤切除后硬膜缺损的重建。
• Spine is the busiest single rubric, covering degenerative disc disease and lumbar or cervical stenosis as well as spinal deformity, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and spinal trauma.脊柱是投稿最集中的单一栏目，涵盖椎间盘退变与腰椎颈椎狭窄，也涵盖脊柱畸形、后纵韧带骨化以及脊柱创伤。
• Paediatric papers address hydrocephalus and shunt management, craniosynostosis, Chiari malformation, spinal dysraphism and the congenital anomalies that fill a children's neurosurgical service.小儿神经外科论文处理脑积水与分流管管理，也处理颅缝早闭与 Chiari 畸形，还包括脊髓闭合不全以及占据儿童神经外科病房的各类先天畸形。
• Functional neurosurgery ranges across deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease and dystonia, stereotactic lesioning, radiofrequency rhizotomy for trigeminal neuralgia and the surgical treatment of spasticity.功能神经外科涉及帕金森病与肌张力障碍的脑深部电刺激，也涉及立体定向毁损术与三叉神经痛射频热凝，还包括痉挛状态的外科治疗。
• Epilepsy surgery has a readership of its own, with presurgical evaluation and invasive monitoring appearing often, temporal and extratemporal resections side by side, and corpus callosotomy or vagus nerve stimulation in the same pages.癫痫外科拥有独立的读者群，术前评估与有创监测常常见到，颞叶切除与颞叶外切除并列刊出，胼胝体切开与迷走神经刺激也出现在同一卷中。
• Neurotrauma covers traumatic brain injury from acute management through rehabilitation, and it takes in spinal cord injury, chronic subdural haematoma and decompressive craniectomy.神经创伤覆盖从急性期处理到康复的颅脑损伤，也包括脊髓损伤与慢性硬膜下血肿，去骨瓣减压同样在列。
• Peripheral nerve disease is a named field of interest, taking in entrapment neuropathy, brachial plexus injury, nerve grafting and the assessment of recovery after repair.周围神经疾病是刊物明列的收稿方向，涉及卡压性神经病与臂丛损伤，也涉及神经移植以及修复后功能恢复的评定。
• A geriatric neurosurgery rubric was added to the section list, a response to the ageing of the Korean population and to the comorbidity that complicates operative decisions in elderly patients.栏目表中新增了老年神经外科，回应韩国人口老龄化，也回应高龄患者合并症给手术决策带来的复杂局面。
• Laboratory work in neuroscience sits explicitly inside the scope, so molecular, cellular and animal studies appear whenever they bear on a question that a neurosurgeon would recognise.神经科学的实验室研究明确在收稿范围之内，只要分子、细胞与动物实验指向神经外科医师关心的问题，就可以刊载。
• The journal publishes laboratory investigations and clinical articles as well as review articles and case reports, and technical notes or letters to the editor are regular features of an issue.刊物刊载实验室研究与临床论著，也刊载综述与病例报告，技术札记与致编辑的信同样是每期的常设内容。
• Nine rubrics organise browsing on the journal site, namely Spine, Vascular, Tumor, Neurotrauma, Pediatric, Functional, Geriatric, Peripheral and Others.刊站以九个栏目组织浏览，脊柱、血管与肿瘤在先，神经创伤、小儿与功能居中，老年、周围与其他收尾。

History

• The Korean Neurosurgical Society was established in 1961, and its first journal appeared on 31 October 1972 as Volume 1, Number 1.大韩神经外科学会于 1961 年成立，其首本刊物于 1972 年 10 月 31 日以第 1 卷第 1 期问世。
• That opening issue was assembled by editor Lee In-Soo with eight members of a publication committee and seven of an edition committee, and it carried seventeen clinical articles and ten case reports.首期由主编 Lee In-Soo 与 8 名出版委员、7 名编辑委员共同完成，刊出 17 篇临床论文与 10 篇病例报告。
• Publication was twice yearly from 1973 to 1981, rose to four issues in 1982 and six in 1988, and became monthly in 1989 as submissions grew.1973 年至 1981 年每年出版 2 期，1982 年增至 4 期，1988 年增至 6 期，1989 年因来稿增加改为月刊。
• A standing publication committee was created in 1984 so that manuscripts could be examined against written regulations instead of being handled by the editor alone.1984 年设立常设出版委员会，稿件依据成文规定接受审查，不再由主编一人处置。
• The National Library of Korea granted an ISSN in 1994, an early mark of public recognition for the title as a scientific journal.韩国国立中央图书馆于 1994 年授予国际标准连续出版物号，这是刊物作为科学期刊获得公共承认的早期标志。
• Members could read published papers on the society homepage from 2000, and abstracts became searchable through KoreaMed in the second half of 2002.自 2000 年起会员可在学会主页查阅已发表论文，2002 年下半年摘要进入 KoreaMed 供检索。
• An electronic ISSN was conferred in March 2003, and the July 2003 issue, Volume 34, Number 1, introduced an Inside Story section for interviews and society news.2003 年 3 月获授电子版国际标准连续出版物号，2003 年 7 月第 34 卷第 1 期新设 Inside Story 栏目，刊登访谈与学会动态。
• Covers began to carry photographs in 2002 and Letters to the Editor were reactivated, part of a redesign meant to move the journal beyond the look of an in-house bulletin.封面自 2002 年起刊登照片，致编辑的信栏目重新启用，这一轮改版让刊物摆脱了内部通报的外观。
• From July 2005 every paper was printed in English, and English remains the only language accepted for submission.自 2005 年 7 月起全部论文以英文刊印，英文至今仍是唯一接受的投稿语言。
• Indexing followed in steps, with EMBASE and PubMed in 2007, Science Citation Index Expanded in 2008 and Scopus in 2009, while PubMed Central now holds the full text.收录分步推进，2007 年进入 EMBASE 与 PubMed，2008 年进入科学引文索引扩展版，2009 年进入 Scopus，全文现由 PubMed Central 保存。
• The journal moved to six issues a year in 2016 and capped case reports at a quarter of published content, trading volume for selectivity.刊物于 2016 年改为每年 6 期，并把病例报告限制在刊载量的四分之一以内，以数量换取选择性。
• Volume numbering has run without a break since 1972, so the 2026 volume is 69, while the earlier identifier 1225-8245 survives in the Crossref record and the current pair is 2005-3711 in print with 1598-7876 online.卷号自 1972 年起从未中断，2026 年为第 69 卷，旧号 1225-8245 只留在 Crossref 的刊号记录中，现行印本号为 2005-3711，电子号为 1598-7876。
• The record in the National Library of Medicine begins with 2003 rather than 1972, a date that tracks the electronic file and the current title rather than the printed launch.美国国家医学图书馆的著录起始年为 2003 年而非 1972 年，该年份对应电子文档与现行刊名，不对应印本的创刊时间。
• Publication is open access under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial licence, and neither the journal site nor PubMed Central puts a subscription barrier in front of the text.刊物以知识共享署名非商业性使用许可开放获取，刊站与 PubMed Central 都没有在正文前设置订阅门槛。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, up from 1.4 in 2023 and 1.7 in 2024, and the title holds the second quartile of the Surgery category at rank 145 of 321.2025 年影响因子为 1.9，高于 2023 年的 1.4 与 2024 年的 1.7，该刊在外科类目 321 种期刊中列第 145 位，处于第二四分位。
• In Clinical Neurology the same year places it at 201 of 296 in the third quartile, and the cited half-life of ten years is long for a specialty journal of this size.同年该刊在临床神经病学类目 296 种期刊中列第 201 位，处于第三四分位，十年被引半衰期在该规模的专科刊中偏长。
• The editorial office sits in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, and papers carry the DOI prefix 10.3340, used across the whole digital archive from the earliest online issues.编辑部设于首尔江南区，论文使用 10.3340 的数字对象标识前缀，从最早的在线期号起整个数字存档沿用同一前缀。

Editors

• Hee-Jin Yang of Seoul National University has been editor-in-chief since 2020, and earlier rosters of the board are archived in three-year blocks from 2014.首尔大学的 Hee-Jin Yang 自 2020 年起担任主编，此前编委会名单按 2014 年起的三年一届形式存档。
• Chul-Kee Park, also at Seoul National University, works as associate editor, and Moonyoung Chung of Soonchunhyang University is managing editor.同样任职于首尔大学的 Chul-Kee Park 担任副主编，顺天乡大学的 Moonyoung Chung 担任执行编辑。
• Dong Gyu Kim holds the title of honorary editor, a post that keeps a former editor-in-chief attached to the board.Dong Gyu Kim 获名誉主编称号，这一职位让前任主编继续与编委会保持联系。
• Three specialist editors handle production and method, with Hye Young Cho as manuscript editor, Ock-Joo Kim of Seoul National University as ethics editor and Sohee Oh of SNU Boramae Hospital as statistical editor.三名专业编辑分管出版与方法，Hye Young Cho 任文稿编辑，首尔大学的 Ock-Joo Kim 任伦理编辑，SNU Boramae 医院的 Sohee Oh 任统计编辑。
• The editorial board numbers about thirty, mostly professors at Korean medical schools, with Seoul National University and Yonsei holding several seats and Korea University, the Catholic University of Korea and Soonchunhyang are also represented.编委会约三十人，多为韩国各医学院的教授，首尔大学与延世大学占有较多席位，高丽大学、天主教大学与顺天乡大学亦有代表。
• Hospitals outside the university system hold seats too, among them Serim General Hospital, Nanoori Gangnam Hospital and the National Cancer Center.大学系统之外的医院同样占有席位，Serim 综合医院与 Nanoori 江南医院在列，国立癌症中心亦有代表。
• Five international editors advise the board, with Phyo Kim, Shizuo Oi and Susumu Miyamoto from Japan and Christopher M. Loftus and Frederick Lenz from the United States.五名国际编辑参与顾问，日本的 Phyo Kim、Shizuo Oi 与 Susumu Miyamoto 在列，美国的 Christopher M. Loftus 与 Frederick Lenz 亦然。
• An international advisory board of roughly forty names draws senior surgeons from Europe, North America and Asia, with German, Japanese and American seats the most numerous.约四十人的国际顾问委员会汇集欧洲、北美与亚洲的资深外科医师，德国、日本与美国的席位最为密集。
• Submission runs through the journal's own electronic system, and an editorial pre-check returns a first editorial decision in about seven days.投稿经刊物自有的电子系统提交，编辑预审约 7 天给出首次编辑决定。
• A first decision after external review takes about 23 days, accepted papers appear online within 24 days, and the submission-to-publication interval averages 86 days.外审后的首次决定约需 23 天，录用后 24 天内上线，从投稿到出版的平均周期为 86 天。
• Every manuscript is compared with published literature and web sources through iThenticate, and a finding of plagiarism stops the paper before review begins.所有稿件经 iThenticate 与已发表文献及网络来源比对，一旦发现抄袭，论文在进入评审前即被终止。
• Generative artificial intelligence may be used only to correct or translate English, and the policy asks authors to disclose such assistance in the manuscript.生成式人工智能仅可用于英文润色或翻译，政策要求作者在稿件中披露此类辅助。
• Case reports are accepted only when they carry a new insight, and the rarity of a condition is explicitly not a sufficient reason to send one for review.病例报告仅在提供新见解时被接受，疾病本身的罕见程度明确不构成送审理由。
• A publication fee of KRW 400,000 or USD 400 applies on acceptance, and invited review articles are exempt.论文录用后收取 40 万韩元或 400 美元的出版费，约稿综述免收。