Academic Journal
Q1British Journal of Anaesthesia
About British Journal of Anaesthesia
British Journal of Anaesthesia is a scholarly journal published by Elsevier Ltd. SCImago 2025 places it in Q1 with an SJR of 2.687 and an H-index of 232.
Its listed coverage is 1923-2026 and its research categories include Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (Q1). The 2025 dataset reports 601 documents and 6799 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Anesthesia and Sedative Agents, Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes, Anesthesia and Pain Management, Airway Management and Intubation Techniques, Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research, Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy.
Recent Research Articles
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Self-reported frailty: good enough for perioperative practice?
Ned Douglas, Jai N. Darvall
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.07.005Impact of superficial and deep parasternal blocks on recovery after cardiac surgery with sternotomy. Response to Br J Anaesth 2025; 135: 404–5
Achille Demarquette, Sigismond Lasocki, Emmanuel Rineau
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.07.023Perioperative management of patients taking sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors: Society for perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI) multidisciplinary consensus statement. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 136: 1776–99
Anne Rüggeberg, Anne M. Camilleri Podesta
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.030Days alive and out-of-hospital within 90 days after colectomy in an upper middle-income country: a retrospective cohort study
Melisa I. Martínez, Javier Eslava-Schmalbach, Eric B. Rosero
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.045Risk of perioperative cardiorespiratory complications and mortality associated with preoperative glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist use in type 2 diabetes mellitus: target trial emulation with active comparators. Response to Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 877–8
Hsiang-Ling Wu, Jui-Tai Chen, Juan Pablo Cata, Ying-Hsuan Tai et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.055Impact of liberal preoperative clear-fluid fasting regimens on the risk of pulmonary aspiration in children (EUROFAST): institutional fasting policy is not individual sip-til-send exposure. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2025; 135: 141–7
Ahmed A.A.M.M. Alkhatip
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.056Prompt injection compromises large language model-based peer review: evidence from randomised controlled trial abstracts from anaesthesia journals
Alessandro De Cassai, Burhan Dost, Elisa Pistollato, Francesco Zarantonello et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.041Patient blood management: the implementation gap does not lie in the lack of evidence, but misconceptions, structural deficits, lack of responsibility, behaviour and culture. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 74–88
Gabor Erdoes, Serdar Gunaydin, Thorsten Haas, Andreas Koster et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.042The impact of clinical debriefing on patient care, teamwork and quality improvement: changing culture to make the time
Emma C. Phillips
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.020Optimising positive end-expiratory pressure in acute respiratory distress syndrome: from optimal value to dynamic stability zone. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 136: 1472–81
Jiaqi Shen
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.054Preoperative fasting: when failure to measure perpetuates harm
Anne Marie Camilleri Podesta, Anne Rüggeberg
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.05.054Identification of difficult airways in critical care units (ID-ACCT). Response to Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 309–10
Thomas J. McClelland, Luke Flower, Adam J. Boulton, Mandeep Phull et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.046Agreement of minimally invasive pulse wave analysis with pulmonary artery and transpulmonary thermodilution cardiac output measurements in perioperative and intensive care medicine: interpreting reference-method effects. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 39–54
Xuxin Wen, Xiao Wang, Yun Su
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.039Volume-dependent analgesic effect of posterior pericapsular hip block in primary total hip arthroplasty: anatomy, volume, and functional interpretation. Response to Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 917–8
Yoann Elmaleh, Karim Guessous, Bernard Delvaux, Thierry Garnier et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.07.024Preoperative electrocardiography for predicting cardiovascular events after noncardiac surgery: a secondary analysis of two prospective cohorts
Xiao-Yu Zhuo, Peng Dong, Shao-Hui Lei, Bo Liu et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.025Withholding or continuing glucose-lowering drugs for elective surgery in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 99–109
Yulai Wu, Zhiyi Li
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.050Decision-making processes in older patients that require, but do not undergo, emergency laparotomy in the UK. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 137: 210–22
Yaohui Liu, Jiang Chen
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.013κ-Opioid receptor activation suppresses triple-negative breast cancer progression by inducing urea cycle dysfunction and mitochondrial damage in vitro and in mice. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2025; 135: 1803–15
Yumiao Shi, Yiying Tao, Zhiying Pan, Guojun Qian et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.036Opportunistic automated computed tomography-based skeletal muscle index assessment to improve preoperative diagnosis of malnutrition before major abdominal cancer surgery: a retrospective cohort analysis
Lucas Mallière, Violette Zorio, Cécile Bétry, Melanie Veloso et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.06.049Dexmedetomidine produces more sleep-like brain activity compared with propofol in human participants. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2026; 136: 552–63
Jiaojiao Shen, Xiangyang Mei
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2026.05.047Reviews
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