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Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer.
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ISSN 0914-8779Verify ISSN ↗1435-5604Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer
Cost to publish: About US$3,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 70 / 340 | 79th | Q1 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 107 / 250 | 57th | Q2 |
| Endocrinology | 68 / 132 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism is Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 70 of 340), Q2 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 107 of 250) and Q3 in Endocrinology (rank 68 of 132), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.799, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 91.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,790 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 Bone and Mineral Metabolism is published by Springer. Its print ISSN is 0914-8779 and its online ISSN is 1435-5604.
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 Bone and Mineral Metabolism has an h-index of 101 and a 2-year mean of 3.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism published 107 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 109. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (42.6%), China (18.1%) and India (4.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (2.4 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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