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Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 1013-7025Verify ISSN ↗1876-441XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 118 / 257 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal is Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 118 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.396, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 1013-7025 and its online ISSN is 1876-441X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #161 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal published 9 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 25. 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 (2021–2026), authors are most often from India (13.5%), Thailand (12.6%) and South Korea (8%).
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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