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Archives of Orofacial Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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ISSN 1823-8602Verify ISSN ↗2231-7163Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthodontics | 31 / 53 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Oral Surgery | 63 / 87 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Archives of Orofacial Sciences is Q3 in Orthodontics (rank 31 of 53) and Q3 in Oral Surgery (rank 63 of 87), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives of Orofacial Sciences 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.145, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Archives of Orofacial Sciences is published by Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia. Its print ISSN is 1823-8602 and its online ISSN is 2231-7163.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Archives of Orofacial Sciences has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #41 of 53 Scopus journals in Orthodontics.
Archives of Orofacial Sciences published 17 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 41. 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 97 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (66.5%), Indonesia (4.6%) and India (4.1%). 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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