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Journal of Wound Care is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE. Published by MA Healthcare Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0969-0700Verify ISSN ↗2052-2916Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MA Healthcare Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing (miscellaneous) | 13 / 55 | 77th | Q1 |
| Fundamentals and Skills | 4 / 15 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.
Journal of Wound Care is Q1 in Nursing (miscellaneous) (rank 13 of 55) and Q1 in Fundamentals and Skills (rank 4 of 15), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Wound Care 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.570, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 87.
Journal of Wound Care is published by MA Healthcare Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0969-0700 and its online ISSN is 2052-2916.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Wound Care has an h-index of 104 and a 2-year mean of 1.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 53 Scopus journals in Nursing (miscellaneous).
Journal of Wound Care published 226 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 251. 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 United States (21.7%), United Kingdom (8.1%) and China (6.3%).
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.
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