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Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology is indexed in Web of Science (SCIE). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1521-6896Verify ISSN ↗1532-169XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,510 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 30 / 147 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (1999–2001).
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.774, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 91.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,510 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.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1521-6896 and its online ISSN is 1532-169X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 2.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 104. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Inactive — coverage ended 2001. 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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