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Orthopedic Reviews is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Open Medical Publishing.
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ISSN 2035-8164Verify ISSN ↗2035-8237Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Open Medical Publishing
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 46 / 340 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Orthopedic Reviews is Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 46 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
Orthopedic Reviews 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.766, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,200 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 Reviews is published by Open Medical Publishing. Its print ISSN is 2035-8164 and its online ISSN is 2035-8237.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Orthopedic Reviews has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 2.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #102 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Orthopedic Reviews published 115 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 134. 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 United States (44.8%), Saudi Arabia (13.4%) and South Africa (4.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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