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Balneo and PRM Research Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Romanian Association of Balneology.
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ISSN 2734-844XVerify ISSN ↗2734-8458Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Romanian Association of Balneology
Cost to publish: About US$215 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 162 / 257 | 37th | Q3 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 227 / 340 | 33rd | Q3 |
| Rheumatology | 59 / 77 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Balneo and PRM Research Journal is Q3 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 162 of 257), Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 227 of 340) and Q4 in Rheumatology (rank 59 of 77), by CiteScore 2025.
Balneo and PRM Research Journal 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.242, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$215 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.
Balneo and PRM Research Journal is published by Romanian Association of Balneology. Its print ISSN is 2734-844X and its online ISSN is 2734-8458.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Balneo and PRM Research Journal has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 1.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #118 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Balneo and PRM Research Journal published 181 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Romania (58.3%), Indonesia (12.9%) and United States (3.2%). 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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