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Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 0975-3125Verify ISSN ↗1658-354XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 71 / 147 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia is Q2 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 71 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.383, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 0975-3125 and its online ISSN is 1658-354X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 1.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Saudi Journal of Anaesthesia published 147 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 182. 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 India (25%), Saudi Arabia (17.2%) and Egypt (8.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 42 retracted papers are recorded (17.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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