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Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE. Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0936-8051Verify ISSN ↗1434-3916Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$4,590 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 75 / 597 | 87th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 68 / 340 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery is Q1 in Surgery (rank 75 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 68 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.952, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 104.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,590 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.
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0936-8051 and its online ISSN is 1434-3916.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery has an h-index of 128 and a 2-year mean of 2.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery published 443 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 586. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (15.1%), United States (10.4%) and Türkiye (7.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 15 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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