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Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.6), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2168-023XVerify ISSN ↗2168-0248Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical and Surgical Nursing | 21 / 28 | 26th | Q3 |
| Surgery | 464 / 597 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 135 / 147 | 8th | Q4 |
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 Q3, CiteScore 0.6.
Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care is Q3 in Medical and Surgical Nursing (rank 21 of 28), Q4 in Surgery (rank 464 of 597) and Q4 in Nutrition and Dietetics (rank 135 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 26th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.172, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 19.
Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2168-023X and its online ISSN is 2168-0248.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 28 Scopus journals in Medical and Surgical Nursing.
Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 62. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (35.4%), United States (16.8%) and Iran (5.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (5.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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