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Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 1060-1872Verify ISSN ↗1557-9794Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$1,860 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 344 / 597 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 228 / 340 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine is Q3 in Surgery (rank 344 of 597) and Q3 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 228 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 42nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.293, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 39.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,860 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 Sports Medicine is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 1060-1872 and its online ISSN is 1557-9794.
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 Techniques in Sports Medicine has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 0.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #433 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 56. 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 96 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (90.8%), Canada (2.6%) and Italy (1.4%). 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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