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Orthopedic Clinics of North America is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), WoS SCIE. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0030-5898Verify ISSN ↗1558-1373Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,950 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 117 / 340 | 65th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Orthopedic Clinics of North America is Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 117 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Orthopedic Clinics of North America 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 3.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.709, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 107.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,950 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.
Orthopedic Clinics of North America is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0030-5898 and its online ISSN is 1558-1373.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Orthopedic Clinics of North America has an h-index of 150 and a 2-year mean of 1.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #202 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Orthopedic Clinics of North America published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 100. 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 89 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (95%), Canada (2.2%) and Ireland (0.6%). 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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