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Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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ISSN 0949-328XVerify ISSN ↗1876-4339Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,270 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 296 / 340 | 13th | Q4 |
| Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation | 230 / 257 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology is Q4 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 296 of 340) and Q4 in Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation (rank 230 of 257), by CiteScore 2025.
Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology 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 0.6, quartile Q4, 13th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.158, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 16.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,270 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.
Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology is published by Elsevier GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0949-328X and its online ISSN is 1876-4339.
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.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #308 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Sports Orthopaedics and Traumatology published 135 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 191. 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 68 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (60%), Luxembourg (16.9%) and Switzerland (6.1%). 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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