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Bone Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 2352-1872Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 72 / 340 | 78th | Q1 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 111 / 250 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Bone Reports is Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 72 of 340) and Q2 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 111 of 250), by CiteScore 2025.
Bone Reports 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.800, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 38.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,540 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.
Bone Reports is published by Elsevier Inc. Its ISSN is 2352-1872.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Bone Reports has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 2.92 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Bone Reports published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 485. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (25.2%), Japan (15.2%) and China (10.6%).
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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