Thanks for all of you for sharing you answers. Actually the main reason to ask this question was not to find the surgeons preference in particular surgical area/subspecialty. I am really curious to know how many of us think that it is important to keep up to date our general medical knowledge, and will keep some of the main medical journals as NEJM, Lancet, BMJ etc.
I personally think that Annals of Surgery is a must for all the surgeons over and above the specialty they are expert in. The Journal deserves the given high impact factor (IF). I am quite sure that any surgeon could find an interesting article in any monthly issue, whereas many issues of NEJM - which is very informative in so many fields of medicine and surgery - quite often do not captivate the surgeon's attention. But, having been in many Editorial Boards of International Journals, I would like to take this opportunity to know your opinions about the current grading system of medical journals based on the Impact Factor. Looking at the ranking of surgical journals of one of the web sites (i.e. ISI Web of Knowledge or Scopus) I feel bewildered when I see that several highly regarded journals, where you can read the results of excellent studies are "punished" by a low IF. I know that something is wrong. It's a very delicate matter also because IF and the Citation Index (CI) as well are the main tools for the evaluation of the scientific production of an individual and also for allocation of grant fundings. It's probably time to move on and induce the experts in assessment and evaluation to study more unbiased and objective tools. I know it's difficult!