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Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0970-0358Verify ISSN ↗1998-376XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 240 / 597 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2003–2017, 1999–2001, 1987–1996, 1968–1985), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.7.
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 240 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.345, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 48.
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0970-0358 and its online ISSN is 1998-376X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 0.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #456 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery published 478 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 87 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (77.6%), United States (3.7%) and Brazil (3.4%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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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