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Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l..
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ISSN 2468-1210Verify ISSN ↗2468-1229Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Masson s.r.l.
Cost to publish: About US$3,140 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 86 / 172 | 50th | Q2 |
| Surgery | 299 / 597 | 50th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 208 / 340 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation is Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 86 of 172), Q2 in Surgery (rank 299 of 597) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 208 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation 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, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.512, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,140 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 Surgery and Rehabilitation is published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l. Its print ISSN is 2468-1210 and its online ISSN is 2468-1229.
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.
Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #101 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation published 371 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 510. 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 (2026), authors are most often from France (41.4%), United States (13.2%) and Canada (5.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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