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Journal of Orthopaedic Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Elsevier B.V..
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0949-2658Verify ISSN ↗1436-2023Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 179 / 597 | 70th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 147 / 340 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1961–1963), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Journal of Orthopaedic Science is Q2 in Surgery (rank 179 of 597) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 147 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Orthopaedic Science 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.530, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 90.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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 Orthopaedic Science is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 0949-2658 and its online ISSN is 1436-2023.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Orthopaedic Science has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 1.13 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #271 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Orthopaedic Science published 156 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 278. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Japan (73.5%), China (7.2%) and Türkiye (5.7%). 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. 10 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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.
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