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Acta Ortopedica Brasileira is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia.
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ISSN 1413-7852Verify ISSN ↗1809-4406Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 121 / 172 | 29th | Q3 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 255 / 340 | 25th | Q3 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 193 / 257 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Acta Ortopedica Brasileira is Q3 in Rehabilitation (rank 121 of 172), Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 255 of 340) and Q3 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 193 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Ortopedica Brasileira 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 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 29th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.270, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$600 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 Ortopedica Brasileira is published by Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia. Its print ISSN is 1413-7852 and its online ISSN is 1809-4406.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Ortopedica Brasileira has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #122 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Acta Ortopedica Brasileira published 94 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 102. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (96.3%), Costa Rica (1.1%) and United States (1.1%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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