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Journal of Knee Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
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ISSN 1538-8506Verify ISSN ↗1938-2480Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 92 / 597 | 84th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 76 / 340 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Journal of Knee Surgery is Q1 in Surgery (rank 92 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 76 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Knee 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.742, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 81.
Journal of Knee Surgery is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its print ISSN is 1538-8506 and its online ISSN is 1938-2480.
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 Knee Surgery has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 1.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #251 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Knee Surgery published 141 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 292. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (55.2%), Türkiye (9.2%) and China (6.4%). 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. No retracted papers are recorded. 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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