Cartilage
Last updated ISSN 1947-6035
Cartilage is published by SAGE Publishing in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,650.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Cartilage concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms
- Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
- Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies
- Tendon Structure and Treatment
- Mesenchymal stem cell research
- Periodontal Regeneration and Treatments
- Foot and Ankle Surgery
- Bone and Joint Diseases
- Proteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1947-6035, 1947-6043 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,650 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,306 |
| Publishing since | 1965 |
| Journal website | car.sagepub.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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