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Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI. Published by SMC Media Srl.
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ISSN 2240-4554Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SMC Media Srl
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 232 / 340 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.4.
Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal is Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 232 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.324, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 56.
Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal is published by SMC Media Srl. Its ISSN is 2240-4554.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal has an h-index of 61 and a 2-year mean of 1.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #192 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Muscles, Ligaments and Tendons Journal published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 484. 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 Brazil (20.7%), Italy (15.8%) and India (10.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.8 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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