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Orthopedic Clinics of North America

W.B. Saunders · United States

ISSN0030-5898eISSN1558-1373

SJR Q2✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.709

H-Indexi

149

SNIPi

1.013

Total Worksi

4,432

Total Citationsi

143,648

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.87

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Orthopedic Clinics of North America offers clinical review articles on cutting-edge technologies and techniques in orthopedics. Each issue focuses on a single topic within specialty areas such as adult reconstruction, and may include evaluations of palpable neck masses with US and CT, and investigation of modes of failure in metal-on-metal total hip replacements and hip resurfacings.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive

Total Publications4,432

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

W.B. Saunders

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0030-5898 / 1558-1373

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

1.8k

2019

2020

570

2021

485

2022

100

439

2023

147

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Orthopedics and Sports MedicineQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Orthopedics

Scopus Categories

Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Orthopedic Surgery and RehabilitationOrthopaedic implants and arthroplastyShoulder Injury and TreatmentTotal Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesOrthopedic Infections and Treatments

Frequently asked questions about Orthopedic Clinics of North America

Is Orthopedic Clinics of North America a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Orthopedic Clinics of North America: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Orthopedic Clinics of North America?

Orthopedic Clinics of North America is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.87.

Is Orthopedic Clinics of North America indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Orthopedic Clinics of North America is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.