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Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS ESCI. Published by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2345-461XVerify ISSN ↗2345-4644Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 187 / 597 | 68th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 151 / 340 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 187 of 597) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 151 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.688, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery is published by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 2345-461X and its online ISSN is 2345-4644.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #558 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery published 3 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 54. 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.
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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