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Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0278-2391Verify ISSN ↗1531-5053Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,500 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otorhinolaryngology | 21 / 123 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Oral Surgery | 15 / 87 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Surgery | 106 / 597 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.4.
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is Q1 in Otorhinolaryngology (rank 21 of 123), Q1 in Oral Surgery (rank 15 of 87) and Q1 in Surgery (rank 106 of 597), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.723, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 153.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,500 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 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0278-2391 and its online ISSN is 1531-5053.
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 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery has an h-index of 210 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 122 Scopus journals in Otorhinolaryngology.
Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery published 437 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 718. 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 United States (84.2%), Mexico (3.4%) and Türkiye (2.3%). 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. 17 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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