List of Paid Surgery Journals : 2025

Are you looking for without APC surgery journals? Then you are in the right place.

Here, we provide an updated list of scholarly, peer-reviewed without APC surgery journals.

APC Free surgery Journals are academic journals that do not charge authors an Article Processing Charge (APC) to publish their research.

There are many surgery journals that charge zero APC (Article Processing Charges) from authors, and these journals are indexed in major databases such as PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science (WOS), and DOAJ.


APC Free Surgery Journals List

For the most recent list of APC waived surgery journals, see the list below.


Journals List Subject Access Type IF
Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica Open Access 1.1
Liver Transplantation Subscription Journal 5.0
Bone and Joint Research Open Access 4.6
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Subscription Journal 3
Acta Orthopaedica Open Access 2.5
Foot and Ankle International Subscription Journal 2.7
World Journal of Emergency Surgery Open Access 7.7
JAMA Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Subscription Journal 7.8
Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Subscription Journal 6
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Open Access 5.3
American Journal of Surgical Pathology Subscription Journal 5.6
Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery Subscription Journal 4.8
British Journal of Surgery Subscription Journal 6.939
Bone and Joint Journal Subscription Journal 4.6
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation Subscription Journal 8.9
Annals of Surgery Open Access 9.0
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry Subscription Journal 11
JAMA Surgery Subscription Journal 16.9
IP International Journal of Maxillofacial Imaging Open Access
Brain Hemorrhages Open Access
National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery Open Access
Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons Open Access
Gland Surgery Subscription Journal 1.8
Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery Subscription Journal
Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology Subscription Journal 0.6
Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Subscription Journal 0.6
Surgical Neurology International Open Access
Journal of Minimal Access Surgery Open Access 0.8
Annals of Maxillofacial Surgery Open Access
Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery Subscription Journal 0.7
Journal of Spine Surgery Open Access 2.40
Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery Subscription Journal 1.3
Indian Journal of Orthopaedics Surgery Open Access
African Journal of Paediatric Surgery Open Access
Annals of Thoracic Medicine Open Access 2.3


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