Journal of Refractive Surgery

The Journal of Refractive Surgery is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering refractive and lens-based optical surgery. It is published by Slack and is the official journal of the International Society of Refractive Surgery, a partner of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Discipline	Ophthalmology
Language	English
Edited by	J. Bradley Randleman
Publication details
Former name(s)	Refractive & Corneal Surgery, Journal of Refractive & Corneal Surgery
History	1985-present
Publisher	Slack
Frequency	Monthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	2.649 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Refract. Surg.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1081-597X (print) 1938-2391 (web)
LCCN	2008212573
OCLC no.	608152195
Journal of Refractive Surgery (1985-1988)
ISSN	0883-0444
Refractive & Corneal Surgery
ISSN	1042-962X
Journal of Refractive & Corneal Surgery
ISSN	1081-0803
Links
Journal homepage

History

The journal was established in 1985 as the Journal of Refractive Surgery and renamed Refractive & Corneal Surgery in 1989. It was again renamed in 1994 as the Journal of Refractive & Corneal Surgery, then reverted to its original and current title in 1995.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine^[1]
• EBSCO databases^[2]
• Embase^[3]
• MEDLINE/PubMed^[4]
• ProQuest databases
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[1]
• Scopus^[5]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[1]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.649.^[6]