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Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Korean Society of Anesthesiologists.
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ISSN 1975-5171Verify ISSN ↗2383-7977Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society of Anesthesiologists
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 48 / 147 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is Q2 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 48 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.532, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 18.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$250 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.
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine is published by Korean Society of Anesthesiologists. Its print ISSN is 1975-5171 and its online ISSN is 2383-7977.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 2.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine published 55 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 76. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (55%), India (18.5%) and United States (8.5%). 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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