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Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer India.
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ISSN 0972-8279Verify ISSN ↗0974-942XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer India
Cost to publish: About US$3,990 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oral Surgery | 44 / 87 | 50th | Q2 |
| Surgery | 329 / 597 | 44th | Q3 |
| Otorhinolaryngology | 73 / 123 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery is Q2 in Oral Surgery (rank 44 of 87), Q3 in Surgery (rank 329 of 597) and Q3 in Otorhinolaryngology (rank 73 of 123), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.325, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,990 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 Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery is published by Springer India. Its print ISSN is 0972-8279 and its online ISSN is 0974-942X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #49 of 87 Scopus journals in Oral Surgery.
Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery published 435 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (63.8%), Brazil (5.7%) and Türkiye (4.6%). 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. 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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