Table 2.
Percentage surgeons reading selected journals with regard to their clinical work (all journals read by at least 10% of surgeons in one or more of the listed categories).
| Sub-specialties % | |||||||||
| Largest | |||||||||
| Journals read | All | General surgery | Otolaryng ology | Urology | Vascular surgery | NHS (England) surgery publications 1990–99 | JIF 2001 | 24 listed journals ranked by JIF | 139 surgery journals from SCI's ranking by JIF |
| BMJ (UK) | 77.9 | 81.1 | 77.8 | 80.5 | 87.3 | 263 | 6.6 | 3 | - |
| Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (UK) | 61.0 | 77.1 | 48.9 | 48.0 | 72.5 | 838 | 0.5 | 21 | 103 |
| British Journal of Surgery (UK) | 48.0 | 97.2 | 1.5 | 14.6 | 93.1 | 1510 | 3.5 | 4 | 5 |
| Lancet (UK) | 30.8 | 48.0 | 11.9 | 23.6 | 49.0 | 211 | 13.3 | 1 | - |
| Annals of Surgery | 24.7 | 47.2 | 5.9 | 10.6 | 29.4 | 18 | 6.7 | 2 | 1 |
| Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK) | 18.6 | 21.2 | 29.6 | 15.4 | 14.7 | 308 | 0.7 | 19 | - |
| Surgery | 16.7 | 31.6 | 3.7 | 7.3 | 23.5 | 37 | 2.6 | 8 | 14 |
| BJU International (British Journal of Urology) (UK) | 14.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 98.4 | 2.0 | 458 | 1.4 | 12 | - |
| Clinical Otolaryngology (UK) | 14.3 | 0.0 | 97.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 123 | 0.7 | 19 | - |
| Journal of Urology | 12.3 | 1.1 | 0.0 | 87.0 | 0.0 | 54 | 3.2 | 5 | - |
| British Journal of Plastic Surgery (UK) | 10.7 | 1.7 | 3.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 372 | 0.8 | 17 | 67 |
| Journal of Vascular Surgery | 8.3 | 9.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 76.5 | 76 | 3.1 | 6 | 7 |
| Archives of Surgery | 8.1 | 18.6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 10.8 | 19 | 2.8 | 7 | 11 |
| Journal of Laryngology and Otology (UK) | 8.0 | 0.0 | 58.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 323 | 0.5 | 21 | - |
| Journal of the American College of Surgeons | 7.2 | 15.8 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 4.9 | 17 | 2.4 | 9 | 16 |
| Acta Oto-Laryngologica | 6.3 | 0.0 | 42.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 80 | 0.8 | 17 | - |
| European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (UK) | 6.1 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 56.9 | 0 | 1.5 | 11 | 40 |
| European Journal of Surgical Oncology (UK) | 5.0 | 12.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 2 | 1.3 | 14 | 45 |
| Colorectal Disease (UK) | 4.6 | 11.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | N/A | N/A | N/A | - |
| Laryngoscope | 4.0 | 0.0 | 28.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 18 | 1.4 | 12 | - |
| Archives of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery | 2.2 | 0.0 | 15.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 25 | 1.1 | 16 | 52 |
| Journal of Endovascular Therapy (Journal of Endovascular Surgery) | 2.2 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 20.6 | 8 | 2.1 | 10 | 26 |
| Otology & Neurotology (American Journal of Otology) | 1.4 | 0.0 | 10.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 56 | 1.2 | 15 | - |
| Phlebology (UK) | 1.4 | 2.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 12.7 | 64 | 0.5 | 21 | 114 |
Journal titles in italics were included in the original questionnaire; SCI, Science Citation Index from Thomson Scientific; -, Journals not included in Thomson Scientific's surgery rankings in the SCI; N/A, Journal without a JIF