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Bone and Joint Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.7), WoS SCIE. Published by British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery.
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ISSN 2049-4394Verify ISSN ↗2049-4408Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 19 / 597 | 96th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 22 / 340 | 93rd | Q1 |
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 Q1, CiteScore 7.7.
Bone and Joint Journal is Q1 in Surgery (rank 19 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 22 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Bone and Joint Journal 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 7.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.660, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 224.
Bone and Joint Journal is published by British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery. Its print ISSN is 2049-4394 and its online ISSN is 2049-4408.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bone and Joint Journal has an h-index of 133 and a 2-year mean of 5.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Bone and Joint Journal published 214 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 326. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (41.8%), United States (11.5%) and Japan (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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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