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International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), 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 0959-289XVerify ISSN ↗1532-3374Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,250 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 56 / 147 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 99 / 218 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia is Q2 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 56 of 147) and Q2 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 99 of 218), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.536, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 67.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,250 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.
International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0959-289X and its online ISSN is 1532-3374.
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.
International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia has an h-index of 79 and a 2-year mean of 0.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia published 398 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (34%), United Kingdom (19.6%) and Israel (5.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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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