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Muscle and Nerve is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 0148-639XVerify ISSN ↗1097-4598Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$4,610 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neurology (clinical) | 120 / 403 | 70th | Q2 |
| Physiology (medical) | 44 / 117 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Physiology | 80 / 196 | 59th | Q2 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 55 / 102 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.3.
Muscle and Nerve is Q2 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 120 of 403), Q2 in Physiology (medical) (rank 44 of 117) and Q2 in Physiology (rank 80 of 196), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Muscle and Nerve 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.134, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 178.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,610 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.
Muscle and Nerve is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0148-639X and its online ISSN is 1097-4598.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Muscle and Nerve has an h-index of 218 and a 2-year mean of 2.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #138 of 403 Scopus journals in Neurology (clinical).
Muscle and Nerve published 326 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 419. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (35.2%), Japan (11.8%) and Netherlands (6.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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.
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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