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Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by BeSARPP.
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ISSN 0001-5164Verify ISSN ↗2736-5239Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BeSARPP
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 119 / 147 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present (also 1963–2018, 1959–1961, 1950–1951), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica is Q4 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 119 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 19th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.162, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 32.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica is published by BeSARPP. Its print ISSN is 0001-5164 and its online ISSN is 2736-5239.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica published 59 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 69. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 44 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Belgium (75%), India (11.4%) and Netherlands (4.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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