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JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.2), WoS SCIE. Published by American Medical Association.
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ISSN 2168-6181Verify ISSN ↗2168-619XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Medical Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otorhinolaryngology | 1 / 123 | 99th | Q1 |
| Surgery | 15 / 597 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.2.
JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery is Q1 in Otorhinolaryngology (rank 1 of 123) and Q1 in Surgery (rank 15 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.555, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 161.
JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery is published by American Medical Association. Its print ISSN is 2168-6181 and its online ISSN is 2168-619X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery has an h-index of 106 and a 2-year mean of 3.94 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 122 Scopus journals in Otorhinolaryngology.
JAMA Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery published 286 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 333. 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 (60.3%), China (10.3%) and Taiwan (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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