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Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Malaysian Orthopaedic Association.
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ISSN 1985-2533Verify ISSN ↗2232-111XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Malaysian Orthopaedic Association
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine | 63 / 111 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Surgery | 366 / 597 | 38th | Q3 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 236 / 340 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.3.
Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal is Q3 in Emergency Medicine (rank 63 of 111), Q3 in Surgery (rank 366 of 597) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 236 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.293, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 20.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$60 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.
Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal is published by Malaysian Orthopaedic Association. Its print ISSN is 1985-2533 and its online ISSN is 2232-111X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal has an h-index of 30 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #56 of 109 Scopus journals in Emergency Medicine.
Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 83. 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 88 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Malaysia (32.8%), India (21.6%) and Singapore (17%).
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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