Bone & Joint Open
Cost to publish
$981
Open-access article processing charge, list price.
Time to publication
8 wks
Fast for a peer-reviewed journal — check what review depth that implies.
h-index
40
OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.
2-year mean citedness
3.0
Average citations to articles from the previous two years.
What it costs to publish here
Publishing an open-access article in Bone & Joint Open is listed at $981. The publisher also lists 800 GBP. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.
Peer review and licensing
| Review model | Double anonymous peer review (policy) |
|---|---|
| Licence | CC BY, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND |
| Author keeps copyright | Yes |
| Plagiarism screening | Yes |
| Editorial board | Published → |
| Languages | EN |
Verification checks
8 of 8 confirmed
These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.
- Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.Confirmed
- Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.Confirmed
- Peer review model publicly declaredDouble anonymous peer reviewConfirmed
- Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.Confirmed
- Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.Confirmed
- Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.Confirmed
- Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.Confirmed
- Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.Confirmed
Scope
The subjects Bone & Joint Open publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.
Publication record
| Indexed articles | 1,022 |
|---|---|
| Total citations | 9,434 |
| i10-index | 301 |
| Most recent indexed article | 2026 |
| Open access since | 2020 |
| All ISSNs | 2633-1462 |
Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.