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Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine

W.B. Saunders · United States · Est. 1993

ISSN1557-9794

SJR Q3✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 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

0.293

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.408

Total Worksi

1,501

Total Citationsi

11,127

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.35

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope✦ Compiled from public sources

Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine focuses on single clinical conditions within sports medicine, offering various management approaches. It aims to provide practitioners with timely information by combining textbook authority, atlas usefulness, and journal timeliness.

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General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1993

Annual Volume~ 44 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,501

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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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?

W.B. Saunders

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1557-9794

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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

134

2019

128

2020

107

2021

152

2022

118

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.

Orthopedics and Sports MedicineQ3

SurgeryQ3

Sports ScienceQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Sport SciencesSurgery

Scopus Categories

Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSports ScienceSurgery

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Shoulder Injury and TreatmentKnee injuries and reconstruction techniquesTotal Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesShoulder and Clavicle InjuriesSports injuries and preventionOrthopedic Surgery and RehabilitationDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesLower Extremity Biomechanics and PathologiesTendon Structure and TreatmentNerve Injury and Rehabilitation

Frequently asked questions about Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine

Is Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine: 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 Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine?

Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine 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 0.35.

Is Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Operative Techniques in Sports Medicine is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.