BiomedicalPublications

Cartilage

SAGE Publishing·United States·ISSN 1947-6035

Subscription or hybridMedicine

Cost to publish

$2,650

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Time to publication

—

Not reported to DOAJ.

h-index

70

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

2.5

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in Cartilage is listed at $2,650. No waiver policy is recorded in our sources, which does not mean none exists. Ask.

What this journal has charged over time

List price for an open-access article in Cartilage, as recorded by OpenAlex for each year. The fee has fallen 12% since 2020, from $3,000 to $2,650.

$0$1.5k$3k2020: $3,00020202021: $3,00020212024: $2,6502024

Publishers change list prices without notice and often apply discounts, institutional agreements or waivers. Treat this as the trend, and confirm the current figure with the journal.

Peer review and licensing

Review modelNot reported
LicenceNot reported
Author keeps copyrightNot reported
Plagiarism screeningNot reported
Editorial boardNot linked in DOAJ
LanguagesNot reported

Verification checks

3 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 JournalsNot listed. Many legitimate subscription journals are not in DOAJ, so this alone means little.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredNo declared model found in DOAJ.
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects Cartilage publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Osteoarthritis Treatment and MechanismsTotal Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesKnee injuries and reconstruction techniquesLower Extremity Biomechanics and PathologiesTendon Structure and TreatmentMesenchymal stem cell researchPeriodontal Regeneration and TreatmentsFoot and Ankle SurgeryBone and Joint DiseasesProteoglycans and glycosaminoglycans research

Publication record

Indexed articles1,302
Total citations26,723
i10-index714
Most recent indexed article2026
All ISSNs1947-6035, 1947-6043

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.