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Facial Plastic Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc..
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ISSN 0736-6825Verify ISSN ↗1098-8793Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 239 / 597 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present (also 1983–1990), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Facial Plastic Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 239 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
Facial Plastic 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.569, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 58.
Facial Plastic Surgery is published by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. Its print ISSN is 0736-6825 and its online ISSN is 1098-8793.
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.
Facial Plastic Surgery has an h-index of 70 and a 2-year mean of 1.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #246 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Facial Plastic Surgery published 106 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 148. 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 87 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (35.2%), United Kingdom (16.7%) and Türkiye (9.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.3 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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