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Journal of Burn Care and Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1559-047XVerify ISSN ↗1559-0488Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$3,698 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine | 30 / 111 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Surgery | 172 / 597 | 71st | Q2 |
| Rehabilitation | 57 / 172 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Journal of Burn Care and Research is Q2 in Emergency Medicine (rank 30 of 111), Q2 in Surgery (rank 172 of 597) and Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 57 of 172), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Burn Care and Research 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.486, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 100.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,698 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 Burn Care and Research is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1559-047X and its online ISSN is 1559-0488.
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 Burn Care and Research has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #67 of 109 Scopus journals in Emergency Medicine.
Journal of Burn Care and Research published 774 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (67.7%), Canada (13.3%) and China (6%). 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. 4 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.
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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