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Dermatologic Surgery (journal)

academic journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ15752669 ↗
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Dermatologic Surgery is a monthly peer-reviewed journal that deals with the subject matter of dermatology. The journal is published by American Society for Dermatologic Surgery, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 2.2.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dermatologic Surgery (journal)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.