Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Acta Orthopaedica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Medical Journals Sweden AB.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1745-3674Verify ISSN ↗1745-3682Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Medical Journals Sweden AB
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 108 / 597 | 81st | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 92 / 340 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1961–2002, 1948–1959, 1932–1945, 1930), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Acta Orthopaedica is Q1 in Surgery (rank 108 of 597) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 92 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Orthopaedica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.228, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 142.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,779 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Orthopaedica is published by Medical Journals Sweden AB. Its print ISSN is 1745-3674 and its online ISSN is 1745-3682.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Orthopaedica has an h-index of 137 and a 2-year mean of 3.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Acta Orthopaedica published 134 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 165. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Denmark (21.1%), Netherlands (18.9%) and Sweden (18%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.