Trauma
Last updated ISSN 1460-4086
Trauma is published by SAGE Publishing in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,150.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Trauma concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Trauma Management and Diagnosis
- Abdominal Trauma and Injuries
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1460-4086, 1477-0350 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,150 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,933 |
| Publishing since | 1954 |
| Journal website | tra.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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