''Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery'' (or in German, ''Langenbeck's Archiv für Chirurgie''), established in 1860 as ''Archiv für Klinische Chirurgie'' by founding editor
Bernhard von Langenbeck, is the oldest
medical journal
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History
The first ...
of
surgery
Surgery ''cheirourgikē'' (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via la, chirurgiae, meaning "hand work". is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a person to investigate or treat a pat ...
in the world.
It is the official journal of several European surgical societies:
German Society of Surgery
The German Society of Surgery (german: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie) is a German medical organization.
It was founded in 1872 and is one of the oldest medical-scientific learned societies. It is headquartered in Berlin and is headed by pre ...
,
German Society of General and Visceral Surgery,
German Association of Endocrine Surgeons,
European Society of Endocrine Surgeons, and the
German
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**Germania (historical use)
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**Ger ...
,
Austrian
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* Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent
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* Austrian German dialect
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and
Swiss
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* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
Surgical Associations for Minimal Invasive Surgery. The journal is currently published by
Springer Science+Business Media and the
editor-in-chief is
Markus W. Büchler (
University of Heidelberg). The journal was original published in German, but is exclusively in English since 1998, when it obtained its current English title.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is indexed and abstracted in:
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor of 3.445.
References
External links
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Surgery journals
Publications established in 1860
8 times per year journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
1860 establishments in Germany
German-language journals
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