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====== Neurosurgery Journals ======

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The first [[journal]] dedicated to the field of [[neurosurgery]] can be debated. The first recurrent publication whose major focus was in the field of neurosurgery was Travaux de Neurologie Chirurgicale, initially published by Chipault in [[1896]] 

====== Classification of Neurosurgical Journals =====

=== 🔝 Tier 1: High-Impact, Global Influence ===
These journals shape clinical practice and research worldwide.

^ Journal ^ Impact Factor (approx.) ^ Publisher ^ Notes ^
| **[[Journal of Neurosurgery]] (JNS)** | ~4.1 | AANS | Flagship journal; includes Spine and Pediatrics editions. |
| **Neurosurgery** | ~4.5 | CNS / Oxford UP | High impact; includes *Operative Neurosurgery*. |
| **Brain** | ~13 | Oxford UP | Broad neuroscience focus, includes neurosurgical research. |
| **Acta Neuropathologica** | ~17 | Springer | Key for neuro-oncology and tumor pathology. |
| **Lancet Neurology** | ~59 | Elsevier | Publishes major neurosurgical trials and reviews. |

=== 🧪 Tier 2: Specialty or Regionally Prestigious ===
Well-regarded journals in subspecialties or specific geographic regions.

^ Journal ^ Impact Factor ^ Focus ^
| **Acta Neurochirurgica** | ~3.0 | General clinical neurosurgery; official EANS journal. |
| **World Neurosurgery** | ~2.1 | Global outlook; supports case reports and LMICs. |
| **Operative Neurosurgery** | ~2.0 | Surgical techniques and intraoperative innovation. |
| **Journal of Clinical Neuroscience** | ~2.0 | Broad clinical scope including neurosurgery. |
| **JNS: Spine / Pediatrics** | ~2.5 | Subspecialty editions of JNS. |
| **Journal of Neurological Surgery Part A & B** | ~1.5 | Skull base and spine focus. |
| **Neurosurgical Review** | ~2.8 | Review articles and original studies (Europe-centered). |

=== 📘 Tier 3: Niche, Emerging, or Open Access ===
Useful for case reports, fast-track publication, or regional content.

^ Journal ^ Model ^ Focus ^
| **Frontiers in Surgery – Neurosurgery** | Open Access | Accepts diverse neurosurgical content; thematic series. |
| **Cureus** | Open Access | Fast publishing; case reports; variable quality. |
| **Asian Journal of Neurosurgery** | Open Access | Regional case series; growing visibility. |
| **Neurosurgical Focus** | Thematic | Monthly focused topics; part of JNS family. |
| **Journal of Neuro-Oncology** | ~3.5 | Interdisciplinary CNS tumor research. |
| **Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases** | ~2.2 | Stroke and vascular neurosurgery. |

=== 🧩 Practical Recommendations ===

^ Purpose ^ Recommended Journals ^
| Early-career publications | World Neurosurgery, Acta Neurochirurgica, Cureus |
| Technical innovation | Operative Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Focus |
| High visibility research | JNS, Neurosurgery, Brain, Lancet Neurology |
| Neuro-oncology focus | Journal of Neuro-Oncology, Acta Neuropathologica |

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[[ACTA NEUROCHIRURGICA]]

[[ACTA NEUROPATHOLOGICA]]

[[ACTA ORTHOPAEDICA]]

[[AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEURORADIOLOGY]]

[[ANNALS OF NEUROSURGERY]] 

[[ASIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY]]

[[BRAIN INJURY]]

[[BRAIN PATHOLOGY]]

[[Brazilian Neurosurgery]]: Arquivos Brasileiros de Neurocirurgia

[[BRITISH JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY]]

[[CENTRAL EUROPEAN NEUROSURGERY]]

[[CHILDS NERVOUS SYSTEM]]

[[Chinese Journal of Contemporary Neurology and Neurosurgery]]

[[Chinese Journal of Neurosurgery]]

[[The Clinical Journal of Pain]]

[[CLINICAL NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY]]

[[Clinical Neurosurgery]]

[[CLINICAL ORTHOPAEDICS AND RELATED RESEARCH]]

[[COMPUTER AIDED SURGERY]]

[[Congress Quarterly]]

[[CONTEMPORARY NEUROSURGERY]]

[[CRITICAL REVIEWS IN NEUROSURGERY]]

[[EGYPTIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY]]

[[Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery]]

[[Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery]]

[[EPILEPSIA]]

EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/15255050

[[Epilepsia Open]]

EPILEPSY RESEARCH
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/09201211

[[EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY]]

[[EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL]]

Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal

[[FLUIDS AND BARRIERS OF THE CNS]]

FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/frontiers-in-neuroendocrinology/

[[GLOBAL SPINE JOURNAL]]

HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/hormones-and-behavior/

[[Indian Journal of Neurosurgery]]

[[Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery]]

JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY
http://jbjs.org

[[JOURNAL OF CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW AND METABOLISM]]

[[JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY]]

[[JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE]]

[[JOURNAL OF KOREAN NEUROSURGICAL SOCIETY]]

[[JOURNAL OF NEURO-ONCOLOGY]]

JOURNAL OF NEURO-OPHTHALMOLOGY
http://journals.lww.com/jneuro-ophthalmology

JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-JNE.html

JOURNAL OF NEUROIMAGING
http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-JON.html

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROINTERVENTIONAL SURGERY]]

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY]]

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY REPORTS]]

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY]]

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY]]

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY]]
http://thejns.org/

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY SPINE]]
http://thejns.org/action/showCoverGallery?journalCode=SPI

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY PEDIATRICS]]
http://thejns.org/action/showCoverGallery?journalCode=ped

[[Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology]] 

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGICAL SCIENCES]]

[[JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA]]
http://www.liebertpub.com/overview/journal-of-neurotrauma/39/

JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
http://www.josonline.org/

JOURNAL OF SPINAL DISORDERS & TECHNIQUES
http://www.jspinaldisorders.com

[[Journal of Spine & Neurosurgery]]

[[Journal of the neurological sciences]]

[[JOURNAL OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM]]

JOURNAL OF VASCULAR AND INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
http://www.jvir.org

JOURNAL OF VASCULAR SURGERY
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07415214

[[MINIMALLY INVASIVE NEUROSURGERY]]


[[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1531-8257|MOVEMENT DISORDERS]]

NEURONEWS 
http://www.cxvascular.com/neuronews

[[NEURO-ONCOLOGY]]

[[NEUROCHIRURGIE]]

[[NEUROCIRUGIA]]

NEUROCRITICAL CARE
http://www.springer.com/medicine/internal/journal/12028

NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
http://content.karger.com/ProdukteDB/produkte.asp?Aktion=JournalHome&ProduktNr=223855

NEUROIMAGE
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10538119

NEUROINTERVENTIONS
http://neurointervention.kr

[[NEUROLOGIA I NEUROCHIRURGIA POLSKA]]
http://www.termedia.pl/magazine.php?magazine_id=15

[[NEUROLOGIA MEDICO-CHIRURGICA]]

NEUROMODULATION
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/ner

NEUROPATHOLOGY
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/neu

NEUROPATHOLOGY AND APPLIED NEUROBIOLOGY
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/nan

NEUROPEDIATRICS
http://www.thieme.com/SID2101845644925/journals/pubid1432672485.html

[[NEUROSURGERY]]

[[NEUROSURGERY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA]]

NEUROSURGERY NEWS
http://www.neurosurgery.pitt.edu/news/neuronews/

[[NEUROSURGERY QUARTERLY]]
http://www.neurosurgery-quarterly.com

[[NEUROSURGICAL FOCUS]]

[[NEUROSURGICAL REVIEW]]

[[OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES IN NEUROSURGERY]]

ORTHOPEDICS
http://www.orthobluejournal.com/

[[PAIN]]


PAIN MEDICINE
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/pme

[[Panminerva medica]]

PARKINSON´S DISEASE
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/pd/

[[PEDIATRIC NEUROSURGERY]]
http://www.karger.com/pne

PITUITARY
http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=103316

[[PROGRESS IN NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY]]

PUBLICACIONES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA IBEROAMERICANA (NEUROCIRUGIA)
http://www.siicsalud.com/main/siicsaprof.htm

[[REVISTA ARGENTINA DE NEUROCIRUGIA]]

[[REVISTA CHILENA DE NEUROCIRUGIA]]

REVISTA DE LA SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DEL DOLOR
http://revista.sedolor.es/

[[ROMANIAN NEUROSURGERY]]

[[RUSSIAN NEUROSURGERY]]

[[SEMINARS IN NEUROSURGERY]]

[[SEMINARS IN SPINE SURGERY]] 

[[SPINAL CORD]]

[[SPINE]]

[[STEREOTACTIC AND FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGERY]]

[[STROKE]]

[[SURGICAL NEUROLOGY INTERNATIONAL]]

[[TECHNIQUES IN NEUROSURGERY]]

THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES
http://www.cjns.org

THE CEREBELLUM
http://www.springerlink.com/content/1473-4222/

[[The Internet Journal of Neurosurgery]]

THE ORTHOPEDIC CLINICS OF NORTHAMERICA
http://orthopedic.theclinics.com/

[[THE SPINE JOURNAL]]

[[TURKISH NEUROSURGERY]] 

[[WORLD NEUROSURGERY]]

====Core Journals====
see [[Core Journals]]

====Journals of Neurosurgical Interest ordered by citation====
see [[Journals of Neurosurgical Interest ordered by citation]].

====Spine====
European Spine Journal

The Spine Journal

Spine 

Journal of Spinal Disorders and Techniques

Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine 

===== Predatory Journals =====

[[Predatory Journals]]



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 With the rapid proliferation of [[artificial intelligence tools]], important questions about their [[applicability]] to [[manuscript]] [[preparation]] have been raised. 

Schneider et al. explore the methodological challenges of detecting AI-generated content in neurosurgical [[publication]]s, using existing detection tools to highlight both the presence of AI content and the fundamental limitations of current detection approaches.

They analyzed 100 [[random]]ly selected manuscripts published between 2023 and 2024 in high-impact [[neurosurgery]] [[journals]] using a two-tiered approach to identify potential AI-generated text. The text was classified as AI-generated if both robustly optimized bidirectional encoder representations from transformers pretraining approach (RoBERTa)-based AI classification tool yielded a positive classification and the text's perplexity score was less than 100. Chi-square tests were conducted to assess differences in the prevalence of AI-generated text across various manuscript sections, topics, and types. To eliminate bias introduced by the more structured nature of abstracts, a subgroup analysis was conducted that excluded abstracts as well.

Approximately one in five (20%) manuscripts contained sections flagged as AI-generated. [[Abstract]]s and methods sections were disproportionately identified. After excluding abstracts, the association between section type and AI-generated content was no longer statistically significant.

The findings highlight both the increasing integration of AI in manuscript preparation and a critical challenge in academic publishing as AI language models become increasingly sophisticated and traditional detection methods become less reliable. This suggests the need to shift focus from detection to [[transparency]], emphasizing the [[development]] of clear [[disclosure]] policies and [[ethical guidelines]] for AI use in academic writing
((Schneider DM, Mishra A, Gluski J, Shah H, Ward M, Brown ED, Sciubba DM, Lo SL. Prevalence of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Text in Neurosurgical Publications: Implications for Academic Integrity and Ethical Authorship. Cureus. 2025 Feb 16;17(2):e79086. doi: 10.7759/cureus.79086. PMID: 40109787; PMCID: PMC11920854.)).