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Pain, Joints, Spine is not currently indexed in Scopus, DOAJ. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3. Published by Zaslavsky Publishing House.
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ISSN 2224-1507Verify ISSN ↗2307-1133Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Zaslavsky Publishing House
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 109 / 147 | 26th | Q3 |
| Rheumatology | 68 / 77 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (2022–2025).
Pain, Joints, Spine is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.164, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Pain, Joints, Spine is published by Zaslavsky Publishing House. Its print ISSN is 2224-1507 and its online ISSN is 2307-1133.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pain, Joints, Spine has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q3.
Pain, Joints, Spine published 45 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 84. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (82%), Egypt (5.2%) and Mexico (3.5%). 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: Inactive — coverage ended 2025. 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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