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International Wound Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1742-4801Verify ISSN ↗1742-481XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 31 / 597 | 94th | Q1 |
| Dermatology | 13 / 152 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
International Wound Journal is Q1 in Surgery (rank 31 of 597) and Q1 in Dermatology (rank 13 of 152), by CiteScore 2025.
International Wound Journal 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.965, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 99.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,580 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 Wound Journal is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1742-4801 and its online ISSN is 1742-481X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
International Wound Journal has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 2.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #80 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
International Wound Journal published 676 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (11.2%), United Kingdom (10.7%) and China (9.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 986 retracted papers are recorded (194.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 7 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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