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Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Bailliere Tindall Ltd.
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ISSN 1521-6942Verify ISSN ↗1532-1770Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bailliere Tindall Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,180 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rheumatology | 6 / 77 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.9.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology is Q1 in Rheumatology (rank 6 of 77), by CiteScore 2025.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology 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 9.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.941, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 129.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,180 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 Rheumatology is published by Bailliere Tindall Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1521-6942 and its online ISSN is 1532-1770.
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 Rheumatology has an h-index of 144 and a 2-year mean of 5.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 74 Scopus journals in Rheumatology.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 84. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.6%), Canada (10.3%) and India (8.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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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