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Knee Surgery and Related Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2234-0726Verify ISSN ↗2234-2451Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 18 / 597 | 97th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 21 / 340 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.7.
Knee Surgery and Related Research is Q1 in Surgery (rank 18 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 21 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Knee Surgery and Related Research is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 7.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.682, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 46.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Knee Surgery and Related Research is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2234-0726 and its online ISSN is 2234-2451.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Knee Surgery and Related Research has an h-index of 55 and a 2-year mean of 6.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #5 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Knee Surgery and Related Research published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 55. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (18.2%), United States (15.7%) and Japan (13.8%).
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.
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