About the Journal
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE BULGARIAN SURGICAL SOCIETY
Name:
Surgery (Khirurgiia, Hirurgiâ, Хирургия)
ISSN (print) 0450-2167
ISSN (online) 3033-151X
Founded: 1934
Objectives:
To contribute to improving the health and well-being of people by implementing and presenting to the audience scientific publication activities in the field of general, specialized, and subspecialized surgery, which contribute to the progress and popularization of surgical science and practice and facilitate the development of academic culture and the improvement of surgical activities by becoming a place for research communication, knowledge exchange and alliance between the members of the Bulgarian Surgical Society and other local and foreign relevant academic societies.
Aims and scope
Surgery (Khirurgiia) is the official journal of the Bulgarian Surgical Society. The journal's primary purpose is to provide a possibility for the publication of high-quality papers presenting recent advances and new developments in all fields of surgery, both clinical and experimental, conventional and minimally invasive approaches. The journal welcomes original papers, review articles, case series, and case – presentations.
Papers submitted to the journal are reviewed by an international editorial board (blind two-pier reviewers process). Field of interest: All fields of general surgery.
Indexing:
Scopus (1950)
(1953-1991)
(1993-2011)
(2013-2016)
Web of Science (1950)
(1953-1991)
(1993-2011)
(2013-2016)
Pubmed (1950-2016)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=0450-2167
Zenodo
Indexing and digital repository archive
(2022-cont.)
https://zenodo.org/communities/surgery/
Indexing
OpenAire
(2022-cont.)
https://explore.openaire.eu
Indexing and full archive (1948-2025) of Surgery (Khirurgiia) ISSN 0450-2167 (Print) is available at:
Bulgarian National Library 'St. St. Cyril and Methodius' (nationallibrary.bg)
Central Medical Library, Medical University Sofia (https://cml.mu-sofia.bg/)
The journal is also included at
National Reference List of contemporary Bulgarian scientific publications with scientific review from
National Centre for Information and Documentation
https://nrs.nacid.bg/register/search
Fees and funding
Publication fee
The publication process is free of charge.
Open access funding
There are no fee for Open access publishing at this journal.
Creative Commons licenses
Open-access articles in the Surgery (Khirurgiia) are published under Creative Commons licenses. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open-access material. Under Creative Commons licenses, authors retain the copyright of their articles.
Surgery (Khirurgiia) articles are published open access under a license (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license). CC BY articles may be shared and adapted for any purpose, including commercially, so long as the authors are credited.
Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers many benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work:
• Cited more - 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects
• Downloaded more - 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles
• Greater Impact - 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions
