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Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society.
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ISSN 2288-8721Verify ISSN ↗2383-8337Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 117 / 257 | 54th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 176 / 340 | 48th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 84 / 144 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Bioengineering | 133 / 168 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow is Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 117 of 257), Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 176 of 340) and Q3 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 84 of 144), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.892, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 10.
Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow is published by Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society. Its print ISSN is 2288-8721 and its online ISSN is 2383-8337.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 2.35 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #50 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 63. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (32.3%), South Korea (29.8%) and United Kingdom (5.1%).
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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