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Wound Management and Prevention is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by HMP Global.
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ISSN 2640-5237Verify ISSN ↗2640-5245Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: HMP Global
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical and Surgical Nursing | 7 / 28 | 76th | Q1 |
| Nursing (miscellaneous) | 22 / 55 | 60th | Q2 |
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 30 / 73 | 59th | Q2 |
| Internal Medicine | 114 / 179 | 36th | Q3 |
| Gastroenterology | 115 / 176 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2024, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.7.
Wound Management and Prevention is Q1 in Medical and Surgical Nursing (rank 7 of 28), Q2 in Nursing (miscellaneous) (rank 22 of 55) and Q2 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 30 of 73), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Wound Management and Prevention is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.209, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 63.
Wound Management and Prevention is published by HMP Global. Its print ISSN is 2640-5237 and its online ISSN is 2640-5245.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Wound Management and Prevention has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 2.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 28 Scopus journals in Medical and Surgical Nursing.
Wound Management and Prevention published 35 papers in 2024; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 44. 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 80 research articles (2022–2024), authors are most often from United States (35.6%), China (20.6%) and Türkiye (18.1%).
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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