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Foot and Ankle Clinics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 1083-7515Verify ISSN ↗1558-1934Verify 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 | 202 / 597 | 66th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 160 / 340 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Foot and Ankle Clinics is Q2 in Surgery (rank 202 of 597) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 160 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Foot and Ankle Clinics 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.610, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 72.
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.
Foot and Ankle Clinics is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 1083-7515 and its online ISSN is 1558-1934.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Foot and Ankle Clinics has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 0.72 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #354 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Foot and Ankle Clinics published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 126. 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 (35.9%), Spain (10.2%) and United Kingdom (8.7%).
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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