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Joint Diseases and Related Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Turkish Joint Diseases Foundation.
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ISSN 2687-4792Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Turkish Joint Diseases Foundation
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 157 / 597 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Rehabilitation | 54 / 172 | 68th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 134 / 340 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Joint Diseases and Related Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 157 of 597), Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 54 of 172) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 134 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Joint Diseases and Related 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.795, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 25.
Joint Diseases and Related Surgery is published by Turkish Joint Diseases Foundation. Its ISSN is 2687-4792.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Joint Diseases and Related Surgery has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 1.48 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #205 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Joint Diseases and Related Surgery published 93 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 123. 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 90 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (57.2%), China (25.6%) and Taiwan (3.3%). 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 (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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