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Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 1048-6666Verify ISSN ↗1558-3848Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$2,260 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 498 / 597 | 16th | Q4 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 309 / 340 | 9th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics is Q4 in Surgery (rank 498 of 597) and Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 309 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 16th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.152, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 33.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,260 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 Techniques in Orthopaedics is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 1048-6666 and its online ISSN is 1558-3848.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 0.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #406 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics published 48 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 64. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (92.5%), Canada (6.3%) and Australia (0.5%). 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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