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Foot and Ankle International is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Inc..
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ISSN 1071-1007Verify ISSN ↗1944-7876Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 69 / 597 | 88th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 63 / 340 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.1.
Foot and Ankle International is Q1 in Surgery (rank 69 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 63 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Foot and Ankle International 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 5.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.288, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 138.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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 International is published by SAGE Publications Inc. Its print ISSN is 1071-1007 and its online ISSN is 1944-7876.
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.
Foot and Ankle International has an h-index of 168 and a 2-year mean of 2.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #86 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Foot and Ankle International published 212 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 266. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (49.1%), Japan (8.8%) and China (6.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are 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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