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Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7). Published by Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd.
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ISSN 0253-2352Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 435 / 597 | 27th | Q3 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 214 / 257 | 16th | Q4 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 283 / 340 | 16th | 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 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics is Q3 in Surgery (rank 435 of 597), Q4 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 214 of 257) and Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 283 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics 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 0.7, quartile Q3, 27th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.146, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics is published by Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd. Its ISSN is 0253-2352.
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 Orthopaedics has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #558 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics published 3 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 277. 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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