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Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Medpharm Publications.
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ISSN 2220-1173Verify ISSN ↗2220-1181Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Medpharm Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 111 / 147 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–2025, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia is Q4 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 111 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.184, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia is published by Medpharm Publications. Its print ISSN is 2220-1173 and its online ISSN is 2220-1181.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia has an h-index of 23 and a 2-year mean of 0.43 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 98. 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 87 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (84.9%), United States (2.9%) and Kenya (1.7%). 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: 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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