World Journal of Orthopedics
Last updated ISSN 2218-5836
World Journal of Orthopedics is published by Springer Science+Business Media in medicine. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in World Journal of Orthopedics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
- Orthopaedic implants and arthroplasty
- Bone fractures and treatments
- Orthopedic Infections and Treatments
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
- Foot and Ankle Surgery
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2218-5836 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,448 |
| Publishing since | 1987 |
| Journal website | www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/1746/ |
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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