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Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Delhi Orthopedic Association.
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ISSN 0976-5662Verify ISSN ↗2213-3445Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Delhi Orthopedic Association
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 191 / 340 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma is Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 191 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.538, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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 Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma is published by Delhi Orthopedic Association. Its print ISSN is 0976-5662 and its online ISSN is 2213-3445.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 1.07 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #197 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma published 326 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 428. 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (41.8%), United States (24.1%) and United Kingdom (13.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 12 retracted papers are recorded (3.9 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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