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Korean Journal of Pain is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Korean Pain Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2005-9159Verify ISSN ↗2093-0569Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Pain Society
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 22 / 147 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.9.
Korean Journal of Pain is Q1 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 22 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Korean Journal of Pain 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 5.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.881, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
Korean Journal of Pain is published by Korean Pain Society. Its print ISSN is 2005-9159 and its online ISSN is 2093-0569.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Korean Journal of Pain has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 3.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #20 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Korean Journal of Pain published 61 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (36.2%), China (19.4%) and Philippines (9.2%).
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 per 1,000 papers). 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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