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Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders

SAGE Publications Ltd · United Kingdom · Est. 2009

ISSN1179-5441eISSN1179-5441

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2024-04-10). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal is not open access. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.409

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.707

Total Worksi

223

Total Citationsi

4,784

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.59

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders is an international, open access journal that considers manuscripts on the rationale and treatment of arthritis, autoimmune disease, and diseases of the bone and cartilage. It covers orthopedics, rheumatology, and immunology and allergy.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2009

Annual Volume~ 11 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications223

Publisher OrgSAGE Publishing

OA Since2009

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Submission Info

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?

SAGE Publications Ltd

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1179-5441 / 1179-5441

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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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

231

2019

322

2020

121

2021

151

2022

2023

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.

Immunology and AllergyQ3

RheumatologyQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Orthopedics

Scopus Categories

RheumatologyImmunology and Allergy

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Osteoarthritis Treatment and MechanismsRheumatoid Arthritis Research and TherapiesTotal Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesSystemic Lupus Erythematosus ResearchTendon Structure and TreatmentAutoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders ResearchShoulder Injury and TreatmentSpondyloarthritis Studies and TreatmentsKnee injuries and reconstruction techniquesSystemic Sclerosis and Related Diseases

Frequently asked questions about Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders

Is Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders a predatory journal?

Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal is not open access" (2024-04-10). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders?

Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders 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 0.59.

Is Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Clinical Medicine Insights: Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Disorders is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.