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Hand Clinics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS SCIE. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0749-0712Verify ISSN ↗1558-1969Verify 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 | 279 / 597 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 198 / 340 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Hand Clinics is Q2 in Surgery (rank 279 of 597) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 198 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Hand 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.584, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 73.
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.
Hand Clinics is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0749-0712 and its online ISSN is 1558-1969.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hand Clinics has an h-index of 97 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #325 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Hand Clinics published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 97. 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 92 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (69%), Canada (6.5%) and Singapore (6.5%). 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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