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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 0021-9355Verify ISSN ↗1535-1386Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 38 / 597 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 39 / 340 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1946–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery is Q1 in Surgery (rank 38 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 39 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Bone and Joint 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.422, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 324.
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 0021-9355 and its online ISSN is 1535-1386.
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.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery has an h-index of 470 and a 2-year mean of 3.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #39 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery published 497 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 499. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (54.8%), Canada (5.6%) and United Kingdom (5%). 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. 7 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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