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Journal of Hand Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0363-5023Verify ISSN ↗1531-6564Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 171 / 597 | 71st | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 142 / 340 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Hand Surgery is Q2 in Surgery (rank 171 of 597) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 142 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Hand 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.066, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 146.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,450 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 Hand Surgery is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0363-5023 and its online ISSN is 1531-6564.
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 Hand Surgery has an h-index of 210 and a 2-year mean of 1.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #177 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Hand Surgery published 346 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 480. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (56.3%), Japan (8.9%) and Türkiye (5.5%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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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