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Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.7). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 1043-1810Verify ISSN ↗1557-9395Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$2,580 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 436 / 597 | 26th | Q3 |
| Otorhinolaryngology | 94 / 123 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1990–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.7.
Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery is Q3 in Surgery (rank 436 of 597) and Q4 in Otorhinolaryngology (rank 94 of 123), by CiteScore 2025.
Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck 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 0.7, quartile Q3, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.241, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,580 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 Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 1043-1810 and its online ISSN is 1557-9395.
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.
Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #380 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery published 57 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 77. 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 90 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (73.7%), Israel (10.6%) and Pakistan (2.2%). 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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