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Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1053-8127Verify ISSN ↗1878-6324Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 53 / 172 | 69th | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 91 / 257 | 64th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 133 / 340 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1992–2000), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation is Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 53 of 172), Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 91 of 257) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 133 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation 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 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.446, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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.
Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1053-8127 and its online ISSN is 1878-6324.
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.
Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation has an h-index of 62 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 #59 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation published 219 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 319. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (31.6%), China (15%) and South Korea (10.5%).
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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