''World Neurosurgery'' is a monthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
that was established in 1973 as ''Surgical Neurology'' before obtaining its current name in 2010. It is published by
Elsevier
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and is the official journal of the
World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), founded in 1955, in Switzerland, as a professional, scientific, non governmental organization, is composed of 130 member societies: consisting of 5 Continental Associations ( AANS, AASNS, C ...
.
The
editor-in-chief
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is Edward C. Benzel (Department of Neurosurgery,
Cleveland Clinic
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).
Editors-in-chief
Editors-in-chief have included:
*
Paul Bucy
Paul Bucy (; November 13, 1904 – September 22, 1992) was an American neurosurgeon and neuropathologist who was a native of Hubbard, Iowa. He is known both for his part in describing the Klüver–Bucy syndrome, his academic life as a teache ...
(
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
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) and
Robert J. White
Robert Joseph White (January 21, 1926 – September 16, 2010) was an American neurosurgeon and bioethicist best known for his work on hypothermia and his experiments with head transplants on mammals, including living monkeys.
Early life
Whi ...
(
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a Private university, private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case ...
), 1973-1985
*
Eben Alexander Jr
Eben Alexander Jr (1913–2004) was an American academic neurosurgeon and a native of Knoxville, Tennessee. He is known for his notable education and training of neurosurgeons, his many recognition awards, and for his editorship of Surgical Ne ...
(
Bowman Gray School of Medicine), 1986-1993
*
James I. Ausman (
University of Illinois at Chicago
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and
University of California, Los Angeles
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), 1994-2009
*
Michael L.J. Apuzzo (Keck School of Medicine of USC), 2010–2015
* Edward C. Benzel (Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic, January, 2015–present
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the ''
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'', the journal has a 2020
impact factor
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The Impact Factor of a journa ...
of 2.104.
References
English-language journals
Elsevier academic journals
Academic journals established in 1973
Monthly journals
Neurosurgery journals
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