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Ultrasound is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1742-271XVerify ISSN ↗1743-1344Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 217 / 361 | 40th | Q3 |
| Radiological and Ultrasound Technology | 43 / 64 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
Ultrasound is Q3 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 217 of 361) and Q3 in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology (rank 43 of 64), by CiteScore 2025.
Ultrasound 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 Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.276, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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.
Ultrasound is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1742-271X and its online ISSN is 1743-1344.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Ultrasound has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 0.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #256 of 346 Scopus journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.
Ultrasound published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 56. 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 93 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (37.6%), India (7.5%) and Iran (6.5%).
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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