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Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2397-5776Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 224 / 597 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine | 50 / 122 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open is Q2 in Surgery (rank 224 of 597) and Q2 in Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine (rank 50 of 122), by CiteScore 2025.
Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.640, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 37.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,100 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.
Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2397-5776.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 2.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open published 233 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 240. 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 United States (80.8%), Japan (3.1%) and United Kingdom (2.3%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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