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Journal of Musculoskeletal Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by World Scientific.
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ISSN 0218-9577Verify ISSN ↗1793-6497Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Scientific
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 329 / 340 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–2025 (also 1997–2006), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Journal of Musculoskeletal Research is Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 329 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Musculoskeletal Research 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 3rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.113, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 21.
Journal of Musculoskeletal Research is published by World Scientific. Its print ISSN is 0218-9577 and its online ISSN is 1793-6497.
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 Musculoskeletal Research has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #306 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Journal of Musculoskeletal Research published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 54. 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 (2022–2025), authors are most often from India (34.2%), Taiwan (8.4%) and Iran (6.8%).
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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