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World Journal of Orthopedics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc.
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ISSN 2218-5836Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 128 / 340 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
World Journal of Orthopedics is Q2 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 128 of 340), by CiteScore 2025.
World Journal of Orthopedics 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 62nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.657, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 69.
World Journal of Orthopedics is published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. Its ISSN is 2218-5836.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Journal of Orthopedics has an h-index of 84 and a 2-year mean of 1.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #114 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
World Journal of Orthopedics published 161 papers in 2025. 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 29 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (17.2%), Poland (10.3%) and Saudi Arabia (10.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (4.8 per 1,000 papers). 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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