''Neurosurgery'' is a monthly

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neurosurgery Neurosurgery or neurological surgery, known in common parlance as brain surgery, is the medical specialty concerned with the surgical treatment of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord and peri ...

and the official journal of the

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. It is published by

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. The journal publishes original research,

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, and

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History

Discussion about a new specialist journal began in 1973 at a Southern Neurosurgical Society meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana. For the next 3 years negotiations took place to either purchase an existing journal or start a new one. In July 1976, during a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the decision to begin a new publication was made at the recommendation of the Congress' Publication Committee. President Robert G. Ojemann made the announcement of its launch at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons on October 27, 1976 and the inaugural issue of ''Neurosurgery'' was published in July 1977 as a bimonthly publication. The journal shifted to monthly publication in 1979. The first supplement to ''Neurosurgery'', named the "Millenium Supplement", was published in September 2000. The ''Operative Neurosurgery'' supplement is currently produced quarterly, and other topic-focused supplements are produced throughout the editorial calendar.

Editors-in-chief

The following individuals have been

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of the journal: * Robert Wilkins, 1977-1982 * Clark Watts, 1982–1987 * Edward Laws, Jr, 1987–1992 * Michael Apuzzo, 1992–2009 * Nelson Oyesiku, 2009–present

Impact factor

According to the ''

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'', ''Neurosurgery'' has a 2017

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of 4.475, ranking it 21st out of 198 journals in the category "Surgery" and 41st out of 192 in the category "Clinical Neurology".

Podcast

In May 2010, the International Podcast Series was introduced with article abstracts from the current issue translated and read in 8 languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, and Russian).

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.neurosurgery-online.com Neurosurgery journals Lippincott Williams & Wilkins academic journals Monthly journals Publications established in 1977 English-language journals