Journal of orthopaedic surgery
Last updated ISSN 1022-5536
Journal of orthopaedic surgery is published by SAGE Publishing in medicine. It is open access. The article processing charge is $1,600.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of orthopaedic surgery concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
- Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Bone fractures and treatments
- Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
- Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- Foot and Ankle Surgery
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1022-5536, 2309-4990 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $1,600 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 2,932 |
| Publishing since | 1988 |
| Journal website | www.josonline.org/index.php/JOS |
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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