Ortho Magazine

About Ortho Magazine

About Ortho Magazine

Ortho Magazine is a French professional and scientific magazine for speech and language therapy — the discipline known in French as orthophonie — published in France by the Elsevier group. The JournalsWorld record is anchored to ISSN 1262-4586, and OpenAlex resolves that ISSN to a source record, titled Ortho magazine, whose ISSN set also includes 2452-1914 and whose host organisation is Elsevier BV. SCImago's journal search, which draws on Scopus data, lists the same title in France under Elsevier Masson s.r.l., the group's French health-sciences arm. The short title is easy to misread in English: this is not an orthopaedics journal, and it is not an orthodontics journal. The ortho- in its name is the ortho- of orthophonie, the French clinical profession concerned with spoken and written language, voice, speech, communication and swallowing.

That identity is confirmed by the journal's citation footprint. OpenAlex's topic profile for the source, at checking time, was dominated by Voice and Speech Disorders, inside the Physiology subfield of Medicine, which is exactly the territory of speech-language practice: voice disorders, speech sound disorders, language development and delay, fluency, and the rehabilitation of communication after illness or injury. The alternate title recorded by OpenAlex, Ortho magazine (Paris), underlines its French, Paris-published character. For JournalsWorld readers outside the French-speaking world, the most useful mental model is a practitioner-facing magazine with scientific content: a title that French-speaking speech-language therapists read for clinical updating, professional news and applied research, rather than a general medical research journal.

Key Facts at a Glance

• Full title: Ortho Magazine (also recorded as Ortho magazine, Paris)
• ISSN: 1262-4586 (print ISSN carried on this record); OpenAlex also records 2452-1914 in the journal's ISSN set
• Publisher: Elsevier — recorded as Elsevier BV by OpenAlex and as Elsevier Masson s.r.l. (France) by SCImago
• Country: France
• Field: Speech and language therapy (orthophonie): voice, speech, language, communication and related clinical practice
• Homepage recorded by OpenAlex: the Elsevier journals page for Ortho Magazine
• OpenAlex record at checking time: 1,813 works and 69 citations, h-index 2 in the OpenAlex summary statistics, coverage from 2002 to 2026
• Open access status in OpenAlex: Not recorded as an open access journal; only a small share of indexed works (14 of 1,813) were recorded as open access
• Article processing charges: No APC figures are listed in OpenAlex; any current charges could not be verified
• DOAJ: A listing could not be verified from the DOAJ search API at checking time

History and Editorial Identity

Ortho Magazine belongs to the French tradition of professional journals that grew up alongside a regulated health profession. Speech-language therapy in France is a distinct, diploma-bearing clinical profession, and its practitioners — orthophonistes — work in private practice, hospitals, rehabilitation centres and schools with patients across the lifespan, from children with language delay to adults recovering communication after stroke. A magazine addressed to that readership has a double duty: it carries scientific and clinical material that helps practitioners keep their practice current, and it carries the professional material — training, practice organisation, and developments in the health system — that shapes their working lives.

The journal's documented history in the major databases begins around the turn of the century. OpenAlex records the source's first publication year as 2002 and its coverage as continuing to 2026, while the SCImago-derived summary previously carried on this JournalsWorld record gave a coverage span of 2006 to 2026. The discrepancy is a coverage artefact rather than a contradiction: different databases begin indexing a title in different years, and neither figure should be read as the magazine's founding date, which could not be verified from the sources fetched for this profile. What the figures do establish is continuity: a French professional title that has been published, and indexed, across more than two decades and is still active in the most recent coverage year recorded.

Its publisher history is clearer. Elsevier Masson, named by SCImago, is the French health-sciences publisher formed around the historic Masson medical list inside the Elsevier group, and it publishes a wide range of French clinical journals and professional magazines. OpenAlex names the parent, Elsevier BV, as host organisation. For citation and cataloguing purposes the two attributions describe the same publishing house at different levels of the corporate structure, and this profile records both with their sources rather than choosing silently between them.

Scope: Speech, Language, Voice and Professional Practice

The scope of Ortho Magazine follows from its readership. Its scientific centre of gravity, as measured by OpenAlex's topic assignment, is voice and speech disorders — the assessment and treatment of voice problems, speech production difficulties and related conditions. Around that centre sits the wider territory of orthophonie: oral and written language development and its disorders in children, including reading and spelling difficulties; language and communication disorders in adults, including aphasia and the cognitive-communication problems that follow brain injury or neurodegenerative disease; fluency disorders such as stuttering; swallowing and feeding difficulties where they fall within the speech therapist's practice; and the hearing-related communication work that overlaps with audiology.

Alongside the clinical material, a professional magazine of this kind characteristically carries content that a research journal would not: guidance on running a practice, reports on training and continuing education, interviews, and discussion of how changes in French health policy affect reimbursement and referral. This profile describes that professional dimension in general terms because it defines the genre; the precise department structure of current issues could not be verified from the publisher pages fetched, since Elsevier's journal page for the title did not return readable content to this check, and no department list is therefore asserted.

Language is part of the scope. The magazine is a French-language title for a French profession. Its evidence base, its clinical vocabulary and its professional concerns are those of francophone practice, and authors or readers approaching it from English-language speech-language pathology should expect to work in French. That is also why its international citation footprint is small: it serves a national professional community first, and its influence travels through practice rather than through the international research literature.

What the Magazine Publishes

Judging by its genre and its indexed record, Ortho Magazine publishes a mixture of clinical and professional writing: applied clinical articles that translate research and specialist experience into practice; case-based and technique-oriented pieces; reviews and updates on conditions within the orthophoniste's remit; and professional, educational and news material for the French speech-therapy community. OpenAlex classifies the source simply as a journal and indexes a large body of works — 1,813 at checking time — a volume consistent with a magazine format publishing many shorter items alongside longer clinical features, rather than with a low-volume research quarterly publishing only full studies.

This distinction matters for authors. A practitioner with a well-documented clinical case, a service evaluation, a training innovation or a practice-focused review may find a natural home here that a hypothesis-testing research journal would not offer. Conversely, a large experimental study aimed at the international research community, written in English and framed for citation, belongs in one of the international speech-language journals, not in a French professional magazine. Matching the manuscript to the genre is the single most important submission decision.

Peer Review and Editorial Standards

The earlier JournalsWorld summary described Ortho Magazine as a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Practitioner magazines of this type normally apply editorial review, with clinical content checked by editors and specialist reviewers, but the formal review model used by this title — whether external double-blind review, single-blind review or in-house editorial assessment for each article type — could not be verified from the sources fetched for this profile, and this profile does not invent one. Authors for whom a specific review model matters, for example because an employer or university counts only externally refereed publications, should ask the editorial office directly and keep the answer on file.

The same discipline applies to other editorial details. No editor-in-chief's name, editorial board list, acceptance rate or turnaround time is stated here, because none could be verified from an accessible publisher page at checking time. Elsevier's journal homepage for the title is the authoritative place for those details, and the contact routes given there should be used for pre-submission enquiries.

Metrics and How to Read Them

The verified metrics describe a high-volume, low-citation professional title, and they should be read in that light. OpenAlex, at checking time, recorded 1,813 works for the source, cited 69 times in total, with an h-index of 2, an i10-index of 0 and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.02. The SCImago-derived summary previously shown on this record reported an h-index of 1. The two sources agree on the essential point — citation counts are very low — while differing by one unit on the h-index, a normal consequence of different coverage and counting dates.

Those numbers do not mean the magazine is unread or unimportant. They mean that its readers, practising clinicians, rarely write citing articles themselves, and that French-language professional content is thinly covered by the citation databases. OpenAlex also records the title in two national lists — a Polish ministerial list value of 20 and a Russian white list entry at checking time — which shows the title is registered in evaluation systems even though its citation averages are minimal. The honest reading is the one this profile gives throughout: judge Ortho Magazine as a channel to French speech-language practitioners, not as a citation vehicle. Authors who need indexed research impact should publish their studies in the international research journals of the field and consider the magazine, if at all, for a French-language practice summary of work published elsewhere, subject to the magazine's own rules on prior publication, which authors should confirm with the editors.

Indexing and Discoverability

SCImago lists the title, which reflects Scopus-source registration, and OpenAlex indexes a substantial run of its contents from 2002 onward. A DOAJ listing could not be verified: the DOAJ search API returned no record for ISSN 1262-4586 at checking time, and OpenAlex records the journal as not in DOAJ and not an open access title, with only 14 of its 1,813 indexed works recorded as openly accessible. Discovery for this title therefore runs mainly through the publisher's platform, library catalogues and the profession's own channels in France. No MEDLINE or Web of Science claim is made in this profile, because none could be verified from the sources fetched.

Fees, Subscriptions and Access

OpenAlex lists no article processing charge prices for Ortho Magazine, and no author fee schedule could be verified from the publisher pages accessible at checking time; this profile therefore records author-side fees as not publicly disclosed in the sources checked. Professional magazines of this kind are normally financed by subscriptions — individual, institutional and through professional readership — rather than by author charges, but that is a statement about the genre, not a verified fact about this title's current terms. Practitioners considering a subscription, and authors considering a submission, should take current prices and terms from Elsevier's official journal page.

How to Submit

Submissions should be directed to the journal through Elsevier, using the journal homepage recorded for the title, which OpenAlex gives as the Elsevier journals page for Ortho Magazine. Because the detailed author instructions on that page could not be read during this check, this profile does not reproduce a submission checklist or an editorial email address; inventing either would risk sending authors to the wrong place. The practical steps that can be stated safely are these. First, confirm that the manuscript is in French and addressed to practising orthophonistes, since that is the magazine's readership. Second, frame the piece for practice: state early what the reader will do differently, support clinical claims with references, and keep the structure and length in line with recent issues, which intending authors should read before writing. Third, use the publisher's current author guidance, linked from the journal homepage, for formatting, declarations and the submission route in force.

Similar and Related Journals

Within the French landscape, Ortho Magazine sits among a small set of orthophonie titles that divide the field between research and practice: French research-oriented periodicals in language sciences and speech therapy address the academic community, while professional magazines address clinicians. Internationally, its functional counterparts are the practitioner magazines and bulletins of the speech-language professions in other countries, and its research-side neighbours are the international journals of voice, fluency, aphasia and language disorders that OpenAlex's topic profile points toward. Readers comparing titles in JournalsWorld should note what this journal is not: it is not the Elsevier orthopaedics or orthodontics literature, and searches that mix those fields will return unrelated titles whose ISSNs do not overlap with 1262-4586 — the twin check for this batch confirmed that the only JournalsWorld record carrying this ISSN is this one.

Why This Magazine Matters

Professions are held together by their literature. Ortho Magazine matters because it gives French speech-language therapists a shared, French-language space in which clinical knowledge, training questions and professional developments are recorded and discussed, backed by a major health-sciences publisher. Its two decades of continuous indexed publication, its large cumulative contents and its persistence into the 2026 coverage year show a title embedded in its profession's working life. For researchers, it is also a window: citation databases barely see it, but anyone who wants to understand what French orthophonistes actually read, debate and apply will find few better sources.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ISSN of Ortho Magazine?

The ISSN carried on this record is 1262-4586. OpenAlex's source record for the journal also lists 2452-1914 in its ISSN set.

Who publishes Ortho Magazine?

Elsevier. OpenAlex records the host organisation as Elsevier BV, and SCImago lists the French publisher as Elsevier Masson s.r.l.

Is Ortho Magazine about orthopaedics?

No. Despite the name, it is a French magazine for speech and language therapy (orthophonie). OpenAlex's topic profile for the journal is dominated by voice and speech disorders, not by bone, joint or dental subjects.

What subjects does it cover?

Voice, speech, spoken and written language, communication and related clinical and professional topics for French speech-language therapists.

What are its citation metrics?

At checking time OpenAlex recorded 1,813 works, 69 citations and an h-index of 2; an earlier SCImago-derived summary gave an h-index of 1. Either way, citation counts are very low, as expected for a French-language professional magazine.

Is Ortho Magazine open access?

OpenAlex records it as not an open access title, with only a small minority of indexed works openly accessible, and a DOAJ listing could not be verified at checking time.

Does it charge authors a fee?

No article processing charge figures are listed in OpenAlex, and no fee schedule could be verified from accessible publisher pages. Check the official Elsevier journal page for current terms before submitting.

How do I submit an article?

Through the journal's page on Elsevier's site, following the author instructions given there. Write in French, for practising clinicians, and read recent issues first to match the magazine's format.

Reading the Journal as a Research Source

Although Ortho Magazine is written for practitioners, researchers have good reasons to consult it deliberately. For historians and sociologists of the health professions, a continuous professional magazine is primary evidence: its contents show which techniques, assessments and therapeutic approaches were being presented to French clinicians at a given date, which training questions were live, and how the profession explained itself to its own members. Bibliometric studies of French speech-language therapy that rely only on international databases will miss this layer almost entirely, because, as the metrics section above shows, the citation indexes capture the magazine's existence without capturing its use. A contents-page analysis of the magazine across the 2002 to 2026 OpenAlex coverage span would give a truer picture of francophone clinical interests — in voice care, in childhood language, in post-stroke rehabilitation — than citation counts alone can offer.

For clinicians trained outside France, the magazine also documents how differently the same clinical problems can be organised when a profession's training, titles and reimbursement rules differ. The French orthophoniste's scope, as reflected in the magazine's subject matter, is set by French regulation and French practice settings, and comparing it with speech-language therapy in other systems is a useful corrective to the assumption that professional boundaries are universal. Readers using the journal this way should cite it by its ISSN, 1262-4586, and by issue and date, in the normal manner for magazine literature, and should not present its practice-oriented articles as if they were controlled research studies: the value of the source lies in knowing exactly what kind of publication it is.