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Open Pain Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.3). Published by Bentham Science Publishers.
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ISSN 1876-3863Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 68 / 147 | 54th | Q2 |
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | 51 / 74 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.3.
Open Pain Journal is Q2 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 68 of 147) and Q3 in Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (rank 51 of 74), by CiteScore 2025.
Open Pain Journal 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 2.3, quartile Q2, 54th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.213, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Open Pain Journal is published by Bentham Science Publishers. Its ISSN is 1876-3863.
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.
Open Pain Journal has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 8.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Open Pain Journal published 3 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 11. 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 24 research articles (2021–2024), authors are most often from Nigeria (16.7%), Iran (12.5%) and Indonesia (12.5%).
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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