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Orthopaedic Surgery is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Sociedade Brasileira de Matematica Aplicada e Computacional.
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ISSN 1757-7853Verify ISSN ↗1757-7861Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Matematica Aplicada e Computacional
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 98 / 597 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 83 / 340 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.6.
Orthopaedic Surgery is Q1 in Surgery (rank 98 of 597) and Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 83 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Orthopaedic Surgery 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 4.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.791, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 53.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Orthopaedic Surgery is published by Sociedade Brasileira de Matematica Aplicada e Computacional. Its print ISSN is 1757-7853 and its online ISSN is 1757-7861.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Orthopaedic Surgery has an h-index of 62 and a 2-year mean of 2.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Orthopaedic Surgery published 305 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 445. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (76.8%), Taiwan (4.6%) and United States (3.6%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 per 1,000 papers). 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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