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Journal of Hand Therapy is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Hanley and Belfus Inc..
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ISSN 0894-1130Verify ISSN ↗1545-004XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hanley and Belfus Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,670 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 63 / 172 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 103 / 257 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Journal of Hand Therapy is Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 63 of 172) and Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 103 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Hand Therapy 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.511, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 78.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,670 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 Therapy is published by Hanley and Belfus Inc. Its print ISSN is 0894-1130 and its online ISSN is 1545-004X.
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 Therapy has an h-index of 97 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #75 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Journal of Hand Therapy published 200 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (29.5%), Türkiye (15.8%) and Canada (5.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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