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Chinese Journal of Hand Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd.
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ISSN 1005-054XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 917 / 1936 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Surgery | 509 / 597 | 14th | Q4 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 314 / 340 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.4.
Chinese Journal of Hand Surgery is Q2 in History (rank 917 of 1936), Q4 in Surgery (rank 509 of 597) and Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 314 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of Hand Surgery is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2, 52nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.105, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Chinese Journal of Hand Surgery is published by Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd. Its ISSN is 1005-054X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Journal of Hand Surgery has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Chinese Journal of Hand Surgery published 28 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 187. 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.
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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