Journal profile · Medicine-Rehabilitation
Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation
ISSN 2151-4585 · eISSN 2151-4593 · SAGE · UNITED STATES
Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.81; fully open access; APC about USD 2,650; median 138 days to acceptance (99 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 26.1% (journal website); 62 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation is published by SAGE and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Hip and Femur Fractures, Bone fractures and treatments and Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes, together about 46.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Surgery. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal HighlightsImpact Factor: 1.6Indexing: PubMed Central (PMC), Scopus, and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).Publication is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC).Submit your paper at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/GOS.Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation (GOS) is a peer-reviewed open access journal that provides clinical information concerning musculoskeletal conditions affecting geriatric orthopaedic patients, including care and subsequent rehabilitation. Please see the Aims and Scope tab for further information.This journal is affiliated with AO Trauma and the International Geriatric Fracture Society.This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).Submission InformationSubmit your manuscript today at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/GOS.Please review the Submission Guidelines for more information on how to submit your article to the journal.Open access article processing charge (APC) informationPublication in the journal is subject to payment of an article processing charge (APC). The APC serves to support the journal and ensures that articles are freely accessible online in perpetuity under a Creative Commons license.The article processing charge (APC) is $3200. Letters to the Editor are free of charge.The article processing charge (APC) is payable when a manuscript is accepted after peer review, before it is published. The APC is subject to taxes where applicable. Please see further details here.Members of the International Geriatric Fracture Society will receive a 50% discount on the APC. Members of AO Trauma will receive a 25% discount on the APC.ContactPlease direct any queries to gos.pra@sagepub.com.Why should you publish Open Access in Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & RehabilitationVisibility and Impact: Anyone anywhere in the world can read, use and cite your research.Rigorous Standards: Double-blind peer review policy.Flexibility: No page limits or page charges, and authors can publish full data sets, figures, tables, etc.Copyright: Authors retain copyright under a Creative Commons License.Useful LinksSubmit your paper to Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & RehabilitationPlease refer to the Submission Guidelines page for more information before submitting your manuscript.Learn about SAGE Open Access at SageSAGE Open Access FAQs
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-Rehabilitation
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 6%); most named United States 17, Italy 3, Mainland China 2, Hong Kong, China 2, Türkiye 2 (34 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Hip and Femur FracturesMedicine26.8%
- Bone fractures and treatmentsMedicine10.9%
- Total Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesMedicine9%
- Bone health and osteoporosis researchMedicine8.6%
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical OutcomesMedicine5.8%
- Orthopaedic implants and arthroplastyMedicine4.9%
- Frailty in Older AdultsMedicine3%
- Trauma and Emergency Care StudiesMedicine2.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geriatrics & Gerontology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Orthopedics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Rehabilitation | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Geriatrics & Gerontology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Orthopedics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Rehabilitation | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Geriatrics & Gerontology | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Orthopedics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Rehabilitation | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Surgery | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.81LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 2Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.58LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.01LetPub ·
- h-index
- 51OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 361OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.05OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 59LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 843 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 50 | 50 | 12 |
| 2025 | 62 | 62 | 136 |
| 2024 | 49 | 49 | 182 |
| 2023 | 49 | 49 | 296 |
| 2022 | 94 | 94 | 802 |
| 2021 | 116 | 116 | 1,256 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
138 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 106 days – 184 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 19 days (99 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 158 days
- Sample
- 99 articles with submission and acceptance dates (117 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 9 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 26.1%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 8 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 23 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 9 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,650 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,650 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,650 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,200 | — | — |
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare8 items from the author guidelines
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 3,000 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Optional
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted21
- brief communicationView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gos/collections/call-for-papers/index The Journal welcomes the f…Length not stated
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- case reportsCase ReportsLength not stated
- case studiesCase StudiesLength not stated
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- fellow cornerMedical Student Corner, Resident Corner, and Fellow CornerLength not stated
- letterView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gos/collections/call-for-papers/index The Journal welcomes the f…Length not stated
- letter to the editorView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gos/collections/call-for-papers/index The Journal welcomes the f…Length not stated
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- medical student cornerMedical Student Corner, Resident Corner, and Fellow CornerLength not stated
- meta-analysisView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gos/collections/call-for-papers/index The Journal welcomes the f…Length not stated
- original manuscriptThe Journal welcomes the following manuscript types: Original Manuscript Review Systematic Review - please follow the PRISMA flow diagram Case Reports Case Stud…Length not stated
- original research paperView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gos/collections/call-for-papers/index The Journal welcomes the f…Length not stated
- perspectiveView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gos/collections/call-for-papers/index The Journal welcomes the f…Length not stated
- research reportView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gos/collections/call-for-papers/index The Journal welcomes the f…Length not stated
- resident cornerMedical Student Corner, Resident Corner, and Fellow CornerLength not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gos/collections/call-for-papers/index The Journal welcomes the f…Length not stated
- systematic reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/gos/collections/call-for-papers/index The Journal welcomes the f…Length not stated
- technical perspectivesTechnical PerspectivesLength not stated
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Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of pu…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Identity transparency: Double anonymized Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency:Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk reject…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2151-4585
- Electronic ISSN
- 2151-4593
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation
What CAS zone is Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Geriatrics & Gerontology / Orthopedics / Rehabilitation / Surgery. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.81; CiteScore 3.1, h-index 51.
How long does peer review take at Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation?
Based on the dates recorded on 99 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 138 days (interquartile range 106–184 days); authors report an average review time of about 9 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 26.1%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Manuscript length: ≤ 3,000 words; Reference style: AMA; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Optional; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation based?
Of the 34 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 6%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (17), Italy (3) and Mainland China (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation open access, and what is the APC?
Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,650.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .