ABCD – Brazilian Archives of Digestive Surgery is the official journal of the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery (CBCD). The journal publishes research in digestive surgery, digestive endoscopy, and related fields directly relevant to the surgical care of digestive diseases. ABCD is published continuously in a single annual volume.
The journal covers the full spectrum of surgical research, including basic, experimental, translational, clinical, epidemiological, and health services research. ABCD publishes original articles, systematic and non-systematic reviews, guidelines and consensus statements, and articles on surgical or endoscopic techniques. Original research may use any scientifically appropriate design, including clinical trials, cohort, case-control, cross-sectional, population-based, experimental, and preclinical studies.
Articles with video are welcome when the video adds substantial scientific or educational value, particularly to demonstrate surgical or endoscopic procedures and techniques.
Editorials are published by invitation only. Letters to the Editor are welcome.
ABCD does not routinely publish case reports. In exceptional cases, highly informative and well-documented cases with substantial educational value may be considered.
Purely medical or non-surgical studies are generally outside the journal’s scope unless they have a clear and direct impact on surgical or endoscopic decision-making, management, or outcomes.
Not sure whether ABCD is the right home for your manuscript? The cloud below maps the most frequent keywords across the articles we have published — the bigger the word, the more studies on that topic. If your subject appears in this map, or sits close to it, your paper is likely within the journal’s scope. The chart is interactive: hover over a word to see how many articles use it.
Works submitted for publication must be unpublished and exclusively intended for ABCD. They must not have been previously published in a similar form and should not be under consideration for publication in another national or international journal. Their content must bring a scientific contribution to surgical and clinical gastroenterology, have scientific merit and engage with the national and international literature.
All matters related to human research and animal research must have prior approval from the Research Ethics Committee (REC) of the institution where the work was carried out, or in another local or regional institution if there is no such committee where the study was conducted, in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, revised in 2013. Following current standards of good practice in human research, it is the full responsibility of the authors that patients enrolled in the study must have signed an informed consent form.
ABCD supports the policies of the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) in registering clinical trials. Clinical trials will only be accepted for publication after they have received an identification number from one of the Clinical Trials Registers validated by the criteria established by WHO and ICMJE, whose addresses are available at the ICMJE website (www.icmje.org). The identification number must be registered at the end of the abstract.
ABCD (ARQUIVOS BRASILEIROS de CIRURGIA DIGESTIVA - Brazilian Archives of Digestive Surgery) is a periodical in continuous publication, with a single annual volume, and the official organ of the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery (CBCD).
The journal's abbreviated title is ABCD: Arq Bras Cir Dig., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic legends.
ISSN: 0102-6720 (Print) · 2317-6326 (Electronic)
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Google ScholarFour decades of the journal, told through live data. Every chart below is interactive — hover, drag, zoom and click to explore.
The total number of times ABCD articles have been cited by other scientific publications (source: OpenAlex). Citations are the most direct measure of a journal's influence: every point on this counter is another study, anywhere in the world, built on research published here.
Last updated on Aug 22, 2026
ABCD has become a platform for international collaboration. Each red arc links Brazil to a country whose researchers co-authored multicenter or collaborative studies published in the journal — more than 20 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. Drag the globe to spin it; the side list ranks the strongest partnerships.
The co-authorship network of the journal's most productive authors (data: OpenAlex). Each circle is an author — the larger the circle, the more articles published in ABCD; colors group researchers who frequently publish together, revealing the research communities behind the journal. Scroll to zoom, drag to move, hover a name for details.
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All articles are published online and are free to read for everyone, at revistaabcd.org.br and on SciELO, with no fees for readers.