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Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 2249-4472Verify ISSN ↗2249-9539Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 182 / 218 | 16th | Q4 |
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 125 / 147 | 15th | Q4 |
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 108 / 122 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care is Q4 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 182 of 218), Q4 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 125 of 147) and Q4 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 108 of 122), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 16th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.147, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 3.
Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 2249-4472 and its online ISSN is 2249-9539.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #151 of 210 Scopus journals in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Journal of Obstetric Anaesthesia and Critical Care published 44 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 90 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (64.4%), United States (6.7%) and United Arab Emirates (3.9%). 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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