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Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8), WoS SCIE. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0891-8422Verify ISSN ↗1558-2302Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 311 / 597 | 47th | Q3 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 215 / 340 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery is Q3 in Surgery (rank 311 of 597) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 215 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.326, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 43.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0891-8422 and its online ISSN is 1558-2302.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #334 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery published 76 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 95. 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 77 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (95.5%), Canada (2.6%) and Brazil (1.3%). 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. 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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