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Operative Orthopadie und Traumatologie is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Medizin.
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ISSN 0934-6694Verify ISSN ↗1439-0981Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Medizin
Cost to publish: About US$3,390 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 268 / 597 | 55th | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 188 / 340 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Operative Orthopadie und Traumatologie is Q2 in Surgery (rank 268 of 597) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 188 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Operative Orthopadie und Traumatologie 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.565, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,390 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.
Operative Orthopadie und Traumatologie is published by Springer Medizin. Its print ISSN is 0934-6694 and its online ISSN is 1439-0981.
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.
Operative Orthopadie und Traumatologie has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 1.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #258 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Operative Orthopadie und Traumatologie published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 65. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Germany (75.6%), Switzerland (18.8%) and Netherlands (2.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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