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IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
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Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,645 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Control and Optimization | 17 / 198 | 91st | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 266 / 1022 | 74th | Q2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | 167 / 570 | 70th | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 112 / 342 | 67th | Q2 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 74 / 196 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics is Q1 in Control and Optimization (rank 17 of 198), Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 266 of 1022) and Q2 in Artificial Intelligence (rank 167 of 570), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.018, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 37.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,645 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.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics is published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Its ISSN is 2576-3202.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 3.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 129 Scopus journals in Control and Optimization.
IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics published 191 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (33.5%), United States (19.7%) and Italy (5.4%).
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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