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Annals of Joint is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI. Published by AME Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2415-6809Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AME Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 183 / 340 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Annals of Joint is Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 183 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Annals of Joint 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 46th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.591, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
Annals of Joint is published by AME Publishing Company. Its ISSN is 2415-6809.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Annals of Joint has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 2.46 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #79 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Annals of Joint published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 114. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (55%), China (12.2%) and Canada (5.7%). 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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