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Journal of Orthopaedic Translation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd.
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ISSN 2214-031XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 6 / 340 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.5.
Journal of Orthopaedic Translation is Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 6 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Orthopaedic Translation 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 14.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.944, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 66.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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 Orthopaedic Translation is published by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd. Its ISSN is 2214-031X.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Orthopaedic Translation has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 7.34 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Journal of Orthopaedic Translation published 185 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (74.8%), United States (4.1%) and Hong Kong SAR China (3.6%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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.
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