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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1749-799XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 74 / 597 | 87th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 67 / 340 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research is Q1 in Surgery (rank 74 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 67 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.029, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 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 Surgery and Research is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1749-799X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 4.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research published 1,170 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (57.1%), United States (7.2%) and Japan (5.1%). 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. 59 retracted papers are recorded (7.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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