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Osteoarthritis and Cartilage is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 16.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by W.B. Saunders Ltd.
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ISSN 1063-4584Verify ISSN ↗1522-9653Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,700 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 5 / 340 | 98th | Q1 |
| Rheumatology | 5 / 77 | 94th | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 26 / 342 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 16.2.
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage is Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 5 of 340), Q1 in Rheumatology (rank 5 of 77) and Q1 in Biomedical Engineering (rank 26 of 342), by CiteScore 2025.
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 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 16.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.818, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 206.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,700 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.
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage is published by W.B. Saunders Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1063-4584 and its online ISSN is 1522-9653.
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.
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage has an h-index of 236 and a 2-year mean of 1.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 16.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #171 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage published 1,025 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 1,159. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (34.5%), China (12.2%) and United Kingdom (10.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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.
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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