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Acta Orthopaedica Belgica is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE. Published by ARSMB-KVBMG.
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ISSN 0001-6462Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: ARSMB-KVBMG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 360 / 597 | 39th | Q3 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 235 / 340 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1946–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica is Q3 in Surgery (rank 360 of 597) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 235 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.341, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 63.
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica is published by ARSMB-KVBMG. Its ISSN is 0001-6462.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.71 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #357 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 112. 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 32 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Belgium (31.3%), Netherlands (12.5%) and Türkiye (10.9%).
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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