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Scandinavian Journal of Pain is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1877-8860Verify ISSN ↗1877-8879Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 49 / 147 | 67th | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 191 / 403 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Scandinavian Journal of Pain is Q2 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 49 of 147) and Q2 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 191 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Scandinavian Journal of Pain 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.621, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,260 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.
Scandinavian Journal of Pain is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1877-8860 and its online ISSN is 1877-8879.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Scandinavian Journal of Pain has an h-index of 54 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Scandinavian Journal of Pain published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 205. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (22.3%), Norway (16.4%) and Denmark (16.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 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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