Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7), DOAJ. Published by American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2471-5492Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 145 / 597 | 75th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 124 / 340 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty is Q1 in Surgery (rank 145 of 597) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 124 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1, 75th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.691, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,000 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 Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty is published by American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. Its ISSN is 2471-5492.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #449 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty published 1 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 30. 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 85 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (62.9%), Japan (5.9%) and Canada (4.1%). 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. 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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.