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Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie

Georg Thieme Verlag · Germany · Est. 1973

ISSN1864-6697eISSN1864-6743

SJR Q3✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 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

0.278

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.457

Total Worksi

3,240

Total Citationsi

9,776

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.28

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Orthopedics; Medicine (miscellaneous); Orthopedics and Sports Medicine; Surgery.

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageGerman

1st Year Published1973

Annual Volume~ 99 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications3,240

Publisher OrgThieme Medical Publishers (Germany)

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Georg Thieme Verlag

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1864-6697 / 1864-6743

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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?

German

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

160

732

2019

704

516

2020

133

487

2021

114

245

2022

106

127

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.

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Orthopedics and Sports MedicineQ3

SurgeryQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Orthopedics

Scopus Categories

Orthopedics and Sports MedicineSurgeryMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Orthopaedic implants and arthroplastyTotal Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesMedical Practices and RehabilitationOrthopedic Infections and TreatmentsMusculoskeletal Disorders and RehabilitationShoulder Injury and TreatmentHip and Femur FracturesBone fractures and treatmentsSpine and Intervertebral Disc PathologyOrthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation

Frequently asked questions about Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie

Is Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie: 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 Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie?

Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie 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 0.28.

Is Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Zeitschrift fur Orthopadie und Unfallchirurgie?