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Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Revista Brasileira de Fisioterapia.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1413-3555Verify ISSN ↗1809-9246Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Revista Brasileira de Fisioterapia
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 29 / 172 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 52 / 257 | 79th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 78 / 340 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy is Q1 in Rehabilitation (rank 29 of 172), Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 52 of 257) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 78 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.996, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 62.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy is published by Revista Brasileira de Fisioterapia. Its print ISSN is 1413-3555 and its online ISSN is 1809-9246.
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.
Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #105 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy published 345 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 509. 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 Brazil (61.2%), Spain (7.9%) and Australia (7.5%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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