Fyodorov Journal of Ophthalmic Surgery

About Fyodorov Journal of Ophthalmic Surgery

Fyodorov Journal of Ophthalmic Surgery — Journal Profile

The Fyodorov Journal of Ophthalmic Surgery is the English-language name of Oftalmokhirurgiya (Офтальмохирургия), one of Russia's leading scientific journals in ophthalmology and the house journal of the Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery centre in Moscow. Founded in 1989 by the world-famous ophthalmologist Academician Svyatoslav Nikolayevich Fyodorov, the journal publishes surgical and clinical eye research — cataract and lens surgery, vitreoretinal surgery, glaucoma, macular disease and ocular oncology among its core themes. Its print ISSN is 0235-4160 and its online ISSN is 2312-4970, the pair carried on this JournalsWorld record, printed on the journal's own site, and confirmed in both the Directory of Open Access Journals and the OpenAlex source record resolved from those ISSNs. It is published in Moscow by the Publishing House "Ophthalmology" for the journal's founders, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution.

History and identity

The journal's official history page gives an unusually complete account of its origins. Oftalmokhirurgiya was founded in 1989, in the last years of the Soviet period, by the Ministry of Health and by the eye microsurgery complex that Svyatoslav Fyodorov had built into one of the most famous surgical institutions in the world. Fyodorov himself — the pioneer of radial keratotomy and of industrial-scale, conveyor-style eye surgery — was the journal's founder and its first editor-in-chief, and his name remains attached to the institution, the journal's English title and its identity. Professor Leonid Feodosievich Linnik, who had been deputy editor from the journal's foundation, served as editor-in-chief from 2000 to 2008. The current editor-in-chief, named on the journal site, is Professor Nazrulla Sagdullaevich Khodzhaev. The journal was registered with the Russian Federation press committee on 9 October 1990 (registration certificate 187); the print ISSN 0235-4160 was assigned in 1998 and the electronic ISSN 2312-4970 in 2014, a chronology that explains why older volumes are print objects while the modern journal is a fully digital, open access title.

The journal's home matters to its content. The editorial office sits at the Fyodorov centre's Moscow address on Beskudnikovsky Boulevard, and the centre's network of branches across Russia — Khabarovsk, Kaluga, Tambov and others — supplies a steady stream of surgical series, technique papers and organisational studies. Articles in recent issues draw on that network directly: a multi-stage treatment study of traumatic strabismus from the Tambov branch, a femtolaser-assisted cataract case with iridocapsular suture fixation from the centre's surgeons, and a study of how the Khabarovsk branch restructured its work to combine planned and emergency eye care during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a journal written substantially by operating surgeons about operations, and its long numbered run — issue 1 of 2026 is the journal's 148th — is the archive of a single great surgical school as much as it is a periodical.

One disambiguation is essential, because the same institution publishes a sibling title that is easy to confuse with this one. Modern Technologies in Ophthalmology (Sovremennye tekhnologii v oftalmologii), published on the same eyepress.ru platform and sharing the DOI prefix 10.25276, is a different journal with its own ISSN, 2312-4911; its articles carry DOIs of the form 10.25276/2312-4911, while this journal's DOIs are built on its print ISSN, in the form 10.25276/0235-4160. Searchers should use the ISSN inside the DOI to tell the two Fyodorov-centre titles apart.

Scope and subjects

The journal's subject, in the Library of Congress classification recorded by DOAJ, is ophthalmology, and its DOAJ keyword set is a compact map of its surgical core: cataract, intraocular lens implantation, vitreoretinal surgery, choroid melanoma, macular edema and glaucoma. Around those keywords, the published content ranges across the full working territory of a surgical eye centre — phacoemulsification technique and its complications, intraocular lens power calculation (the subject of review articles that work through the modern formula literature in detail), refractive surgery, corneal and orbital surgery, ocular trauma and its staged repair, strabismus surgery, ocular oncology, retinal disease and its surgical and laser management, and the organisation of high-technology ophthalmic care across a large country's regional branches. Clinical studies, surgical technique papers, case reports and reviews all appear; the common thread is that the work speaks to practising ophthalmologists and eye surgeons, in Russia first of all, rather than to laboratory science alone.

The journal's language is Russian — DOAJ records RU as its language of publication — with English titles, abstracts and the established English journal name making its content discoverable internationally. Authors should note what that means in practice: this is the Russian-language surgical literature of the Fyodorov school, cited in English as the Fyodorov Journal of Ophthalmic Surgery, and a reader following a citation into the full text should expect a Russian article with English front matter.

Publisher, editors and editorial practice

The publisher of record in DOAJ and OpenAlex is the Publishing House "Ophthalmology", acting for the journal's founders, and the journal is produced on an Open Journal Systems platform at ophthalmosurgery.ru, with a companion presence for the centre's publications at eyepress.ru. Editorial practice is documented in DOAJ's record, which is drawn from the journal's own policy pages: manuscripts receive single anonymous peer review; plagiarism screening is applied; authors retain copyright; and published content is licensed CC BY 4.0, the same Creative Commons Attribution licence stated on the journal site itself. DOAJ records an average publication time of eight weeks, open access running from 2013, and preservation through the Russian State Library. The journal's history page adds its Russian scholarly standing: by decision of the Higher Attestation Commission (VAK) the journal is included in the Russian list of peer-reviewed journals in which the main results of doctoral and candidate dissertations must be published — the key national credential for a Russian medical title — and its articles are registered with Crossref and carried in the Russian Science Citation Index.

On charges, the position is clear and favourable to authors: DOAJ records that the journal has no article processing charge and no other charges. The journal site's own navigation carries a dedicated publication-payment policy page within its journal-policy section, consistent with that no-charge record.

Metrics and standing

OpenAlex, resolved through its ISSN endpoint to source S4210176926 at the time of checking, records 936 works for the journal, all of them open access, with 878 citations, an h-index of 8, an i10-index of 6 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.32; its largest topic cluster is intraocular surgery and lenses, with 314 works. Those figures describe the journal's digitally indexed modern era — OpenAlex's coverage begins in 2010 — and they understate the title's full print history since 1989, which no international database covers completely. This record's stored indicators give an h-index of 5; the difference from the OpenAlex figure is a matter of source and date, and both are reported here with attribution rather than merged into a single invented number. The journal's own history page cites a Russian national citation index (RINC) impact factor of 0.875 for 2018 — an older, nationally defined figure that should be read as the journal's own historical claim, not a current metric. The fairest summary of standing is institutional: a VAK-listed, Scopus-indexed, fully open access surgical journal that has carried the output of Russia's best-known eye surgery centre for more than three and a half decades.

Indexing and access

According to its official history page, the journal is indexed in Scopus, the Russian Science Citation Index on the Web of Science platform, DOAJ and the Library of Congress catalogue, with its articles placed in the eLIBRARY.RU electronic library, registered in the Russian Science Citation Index (RINC) and assigned Crossref DOIs. DOAJ's listing — verified directly from the DOAJ search API for this profile, which returned the journal under both ISSNs — confirms the open access position: free to read, CC BY 4.0, no charges, authors retaining copyright. Every article carries a DOI under the prefix 10.25276 built on the print ISSN, so a citation such as 10.25276/0235-4160-2026-1-122-129 resolves to the journal's own platform. For readers outside Russia, the practical route in is the journal site at ophthalmosurgery.ru, where current issues and an archive reaching back to 2003 are held.

How to submit

Submissions are made through the journal's OJS platform, where the Authors section sets out the rules for authors, the copyright position and the permissions requirements, and the journal's policy pages cover its aims, its standards for accepting material, its open access and payment policies, its review procedure and its publication ethics. Prospective authors should prepare a manuscript in Russian in the journal's format, expect single anonymous peer review with plagiarism screening, and allow for the eight-week average publication time DOAJ records — while understanding that this is a specialist surgical journal whose editors look for operative and clinical substance: case series with real numbers, technique papers with reproducible detail, and reviews that organise a fast-moving surgical literature for practising surgeons. Authors outside the Fyodorov centre's network do publish in the journal, but the surest guide to fit is the current issue itself: if your paper would sit naturally beside its cataract, vitreoretinal, glaucoma and ocular-trauma content, it is in the journal's territory.

Inside an issue: what the journal actually publishes

A reader who opens a recent issue meets the working agenda of a large surgical service, written up as science. Consider the kinds of papers the journal has carried in the material gathered for this profile. A study of traumatic strabismus from the Tambov branch classified the injuries behind the condition — orbital and periorbital trauma, orbital fracture, concussion, cranio-orbital and brain injury — traced its mechanisms through paralysis and paresis of the extraocular muscles, muscle damage and restriction, and then counted, operation by operation, how many stages each kind of repair required: one stage for most interventions on the extraocular muscles, two when scar excision or orbital plastic surgery was involved, three for chemodenervation. That is the journal's signature genre — a complete clinical series from a named branch, analysed to the point where another surgeon can plan a case from it. Beside it sit single-case technique reports of the highest specialisation, such as a femtolaser-assisted cataract extraction combined with iridocapsular suture fixation of the lens in a patient with severe lens subluxation and pseudoexfoliation, followed through uncorrected acuity of 1.0 at three months; systematic review work, such as the survey of intraocular lens power calculation in short eyes that works through the modern formula literature study by study; and health-services papers, such as the account of how the Khabarovsk branch reorganised itself during the pandemic to keep emergency eye care running after the regional centre closed. DOAJ's keyword list — cataract, lens implantation, vitreoretinal surgery, choroid melanoma, macular edema, glaucoma — reads, against this content, like a fair table of contents for the whole title.

The journal's citation pattern follows from this content. Surgical series and technique papers of this kind are cited mainly inside the national and regional literature that uses them — the Russian Science Citation Index and Scopus give the journal its measurable footprint there — while its review articles, which digest international literatures such as the lens-calculation formula debate into Russian, serve the large domestic readership that works in Russian. A directory user assessing the journal for a library or a reading list should therefore weigh its institutional depth and its complete open archive more heavily than any single citation average.

The Fyodorov legacy behind the title

No profile of this journal is complete without the institution in its name. Svyatoslav Fyodorov (1927–2000) built the Eye Microsurgery complex into a network that treated eye disease at a scale no other surgical organisation attempted, and the journal he founded in 1989 was the network's scientific voice: the place where its techniques were described, its results audited and its branch experience compared. That origin explains features of the journal that can puzzle an outside reader — the prominence of branch-authored series, the attention to the organisation of high-technology care as a research subject in its own right, and the journal's survival, with its title and numbering intact, through the institutional changes that followed Fyodorov's death. The centre today is a federal state institution of the Russian Ministry of Health, and the journal's founders, as recorded in DOAJ, remain the Ministry and the centre itself. When the journal marked its history on its official pages, it chose to tell that story through its editors — Fyodorov, then Linnik, then Khodzhaev — which is a fair summary of how a surgical school's journal understands itself: a continuing editorship in a continuing institution, publishing the work of a continuing operating community.

Related journals

Within the Fyodorov centre's own family, the closest relative is Modern Technologies in Ophthalmology (ISSN 2312-4911), the centre's scientific and practical journal of new ophthalmic technologies — a sibling, not a twin, of this title, with its own ISSN and DOI stem. Beyond the family, readers comparing surgical ophthalmology venues will also consult the Russian Ophthalmological Journal and Vestnik Oftalmologii in the Russian literature, and internationally the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Retina and the British Journal of Ophthalmology for the same operative fields in English. On JournalsWorld, this record's neighbours are the ophthalmology titles under the medicine listings, where the ISSN pair 0235-4160 / 2312-4970 is the reliable way to find this journal among several similarly named eye titles.

Frequently asked questions

What are the ISSNs of the Fyodorov Journal of Ophthalmic Surgery?

Print ISSN 0235-4160, assigned in 1998, and online ISSN 2312-4970, assigned in 2014. Both are printed on the journal site and recorded by DOAJ and OpenAlex.

When was the journal founded, and by whom?

In 1989, by the Ministry of Health of Russia and the S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution. Its founder and first editor-in-chief was Academician Svyatoslav Fyodorov.

Who is the current editor-in-chief?

Professor Nazrulla Sagdullaevich Khodzhaev, as named on the journal site. Professor Leonid Linnik held the post from 2000 to 2008.

Is the Fyodorov Journal of Ophthalmic Surgery open access?

Yes. DOAJ lists it as open access from 2013 under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright, and the journal site carries the same licence statement.

Does the journal charge authors?

DOAJ records no article processing charge and no other charges for this journal.

How is the journal reviewed?

By single anonymous peer review, with plagiarism screening, according to the DOAJ record drawn from the journal's policy pages; DOAJ gives an average publication time of eight weeks.

Is it the same journal as Modern Technologies in Ophthalmology?

No. That is a separate journal from the same Fyodorov centre stable, with ISSN 2312-4911 and DOIs built on that number. This journal's ISSNs are 0235-4160 and 2312-4970, and its DOIs are built on 0235-4160.

What language does the journal publish in?

Russian, as recorded by DOAJ, with English titles and abstracts and the established English name Fyodorov Journal of Ophthalmic Surgery used for international citation.

Where is the journal indexed?

Its official history page lists Scopus, the Russian Science Citation Index on the Web of Science platform, DOAJ and the Library of Congress, with articles in eLIBRARY.RU and Crossref registration. It also holds VAK-listed status, the Russian national list for dissertation publications.

How far back does the journal's archive run?

The journal itself was founded in 1989 and its issues are numbered continuously — the first issue of 2026 is number 148. The online archive on the journal platform reaches back to 2003, and OpenAlex's indexed coverage of the journal begins in 2010.