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Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health Inc.
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ISSN 0009-921XVerify ISSN ↗1528-1132Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 35 / 597 | 94th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 38 / 340 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.5.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research is Q1 in Surgery (rank 35 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 38 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 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 6.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.183, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 254.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research is published by Wolters Kluwer Health Inc. Its print ISSN is 0009-921X and its online ISSN is 1528-1132.
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.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research has an h-index of 349 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #155 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research published 452 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 650. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (72.3%), China (5.8%) and Netherlands (3%). 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. 11 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 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.
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