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Journal of Biomechanics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.3), 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 0021-9290Verify ISSN ↗1873-2380Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 35 / 172 | 79th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 95 / 340 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Biophysics | 72 / 155 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 178 / 342 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.3.
Journal of Biomechanics is Q1 in Rehabilitation (rank 35 of 172), Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 95 of 340) and Q2 in Biophysics (rank 72 of 155), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Biomechanics 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.722, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 240.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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 Biomechanics is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0021-9290 and its online ISSN is 1873-2380.
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 Biomechanics has an h-index of 327 and a 2-year mean of 2.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Journal of Biomechanics published 551 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 571. 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 United States (18.9%), China (10.2%) and Canada (9.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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.
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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