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Physiotherapy Research International is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.6), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 1358-2267Verify ISSN ↗1471-2865Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$3,240 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 119 / 257 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.6.
Physiotherapy Research International is Q2 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 119 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Physiotherapy Research International 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.555, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 62.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,240 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.
Physiotherapy Research International is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 1358-2267 and its online ISSN is 1471-2865.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Physiotherapy Research International has an h-index of 75 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #104 of 249 Scopus journals in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation.
Physiotherapy Research International published 146 papers in 2025. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Brazil (24.1%), India (11.1%) and Türkiye (8.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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.
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