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Cartilage is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1947-6035Verify ISSN ↗1947-6043Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 19 / 257 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Immunology and Allergy | 67 / 234 | 71st | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 101 / 342 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.1.
Cartilage is Q1 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 19 of 257), Q2 in Immunology and Allergy (rank 67 of 234) and Q2 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 101 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Cartilage 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 7.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.945, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 61.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,650 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.
Cartilage is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1947-6035 and its online ISSN is 1947-6043.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cartilage has an h-index of 71 and a 2-year mean of 2.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Cartilage published 71 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 157. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (16.4%), China (14.8%) and Japan (9.7%).
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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