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Musculoskeletal Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.7). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Verlag.
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ISSN 2035-5106Verify ISSN ↗2035-5114Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 142 / 597 | 76th | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 122 / 340 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.7.
Musculoskeletal Surgery is Q1 in Surgery (rank 142 of 597) and Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 122 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Musculoskeletal Surgery is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1, 76th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.635, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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.
Musculoskeletal Surgery is published by Springer Verlag. Its print ISSN is 2035-5106 and its online ISSN is 2035-5114.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Musculoskeletal Surgery has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 2.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #106 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Musculoskeletal Surgery published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 82. 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 Italy (46.3%), India (8.2%) and United Kingdom (7.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.1 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.
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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