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Advances in Cosmetic Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 2542-4327Verify ISSN ↗2542-4793Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dermatology | 118 / 152 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Surgery | 466 / 597 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Advances in Cosmetic Surgery is Q4 in Dermatology (rank 118 of 152) and Q4 in Surgery (rank 466 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Cosmetic Surgery is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.168, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Advances in Cosmetic Surgery is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 2542-4327 and its online ISSN is 2542-4793.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Advances in Cosmetic Surgery has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #109 of 144 Scopus journals in Dermatology.
Advances in Cosmetic Surgery published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 34. 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 88 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (89.8%), Canada (4.5%) and United Kingdom (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. 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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