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Injury is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0020-1383Verify ISSN ↗1879-0267Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,640 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine | 22 / 111 | 80th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 100 / 340 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Injury is Q1 in Emergency Medicine (rank 22 of 111) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 100 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Injury 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.773, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 157.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,640 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.
Injury is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0020-1383 and its online ISSN is 1879-0267.
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.
Injury has an h-index of 195 and a 2-year mean of 2.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 109 Scopus journals in Emergency Medicine.
Injury published 656 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 770. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (23.5%), China (11.3%) and Australia (5.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 19 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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