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British Journal of Anaesthesia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0007-0912Verify ISSN ↗1471-6771Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 2 / 147 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1923–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.5.
British Journal of Anaesthesia is Q1 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 2 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
British Journal of Anaesthesia 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 14.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.687, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 232.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,450 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.
British Journal of Anaesthesia is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0007-0912 and its online ISSN is 1471-6771.
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.
British Journal of Anaesthesia has an h-index of 291 and a 2-year mean of 4.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
British Journal of Anaesthesia published 741 papers in 2025. 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 81 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (19.8%), United Kingdom (14%) and France (12.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 77 retracted papers are recorded (2.6 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.
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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