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Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Faculty of Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care, AFMS.
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ISSN 1607-8322Verify ISSN ↗2220-5799Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Faculty of Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care, AFMS
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 121 / 147 | 18th | Q4 |
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 105 / 122 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care is Q4 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 121 of 147) and Q4 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 105 of 122), by CiteScore 2025.
Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care 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 18th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.180, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$190 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.
Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care is published by Faculty of Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care, AFMS. Its print ISSN is 1607-8322 and its online ISSN is 2220-5799.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care has an h-index of 12 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Anaesthesia, Pain and Intensive Care published 241 papers in 2025. 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 86 research articles (2025), authors are most often from Pakistan (18.6%), Iraq (18%) and Saudi Arabia (13.4%).
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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