World Neurosurgery is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that was established in 1973 as Surgical Neurology before obtaining its current name in 2010. It is published by Elsevier and is the official journal of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies. The editor-in-chief is Edward C. Benzel (Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic). Editors-in-chief Editors-in-chief have included: Paul Bucy (Wake Forest University School of Medicine) and Robert J. White (Case Western Reserve University), 1973-1985 Eben Alexander Jr (Bowman Gray School of Medicine), 1986-1993 James I. Ausman (University of Illinois at Chicago and University of California, Los Angeles), 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 Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 2.104. References English-language journals Elsevier academic journals Publications established in 1973 Monthly journals Neurosurgery journals