Academic Journal
Q1Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
About Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage is a scholarly journal published by W.B. Saunders Ltd. SCImago 2025 places it in Q1 with an SJR of 2.818 and an H-index of 206.
Its listed coverage is 1993-2026 and its research categories include Biomedical Engineering (Q1); Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (Q1); Rheumatology (Q1). The 2025 dataset reports 176 documents and 4533 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
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Aims & Scope
The journal publishes research related to Osteoarthritis Treatment and Mechanisms, Total Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes, Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques, Inflammatory mediators and NSAID effects, Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies, Lower Extremity Biomechanics and Pathologies.
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Mapping articular cartilage maturation across postnatal development by proteomics
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2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.06.006SESN2 drives osteoarthritis progression by inducing MFN2-dependent mitochondrial hyperfusion in rats
Yiwen Zhang, Zehang Zheng, Wenjie Hou, Chunran Pan et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.05.014Epidemiology of osteoarthritis: 2026 update of the evidence
Yvonne M. Golightly, Shamema S. Sheree, Kelli D. Allen
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.06.014Commentary on: Ten year follow-up of a randomized trial of autologous chondrocyte implantation versus alternative forms of surgical cartilage management in the knee (Snow M. et al., Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 2026)
Nicola Maffulli, Filippo Migliorini
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.07.008Letter to the editor concerning ‘A decade of exposure: Long-term air pollution and its impact on osteoarthritis: A nationwide cohort study in Taiwan’
Cheng Li
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2025.07.010Structural and functional changes in articulating joints during aging of male and female C57BL/6JN mice
Manuela Oviedo, Katherine M. Arnold, Elizabeth L. Zars, Eduardo Peralta-Herrera et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.06.002Effectiveness of a blended care intervention in physiotherapy with exercise and education for patients with hip or knee osteoarthritis (SmArt-E): A multicentre pragmatic randomized controlled trial
Franziska Weber, Corelien J.J. Kloek, Sara Neumann, Carolin Bahns et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.06.010Sensor-based measures of knee brace adherence have low agreement with self-report methods: A multi-measure study among knee osteoarthritis patients
Michael J. Callaghan, David T. Felson, Melanie A. Holden, Belinda Borrelli et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.06.005Systemic biomarkers of treatment response to methotrexate in people with painful knee osteoarthritis: A biological substudy of the PROMOTE randomised controlled clinical trial
Jiahao Liang, Artemis Papadaki, Jennifer Alderson, Tonia L. Vincent et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.07.002Deep learning-based quantification of knee effusion-synovitis volume on MRI – Technique development and validation
Adrian A. Marth, Felix Liu, Ethan Pan, Brandon K.K. Fields et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.06.007Corrigendum to “110 – Macrophage targeting immunomodulatory and sustained release microparticles alleviate inflammation and pain in a non-surgical murine model of osteoarthritis” [Osteoarthr. Cartil. 34S (2026) S106–S107]
Paul Sagoe, Kaixiang Zhang, Zachary Varrenti, Ramkumar Annamalai et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.07.001GDF10 attenuates chondral fibrosis and cartilage degeneration in osteonecrosis of the femoral head: Insight into underlying regulatory mechanisms
Yingkang Zhu, Wang Wei, Xu Wang, Pengbo Wang et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.05.010Weight-bearing locomotion mitigates the progression of post-traumatic knee osteoarthritis in male rodents: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Sydni V.W. Whitten, Michael Jones, Marin D. Plemmons, Young-Hui Chang et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.07.010Multimodal characterization of articular cartilage degeneration in the humeral head using Raman spectroscopy, biomechanics, and imaging
Mason J. Garcia, Dev R. Mehrotra, Jake Giering, Erik E. Ersland et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.06.001Effect of an oral complementary medicine combination for symptomatic knee osteoarthritis: A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial
Shiwen Yuan, Xiaoqian Liu, Karen Bracken, Robin Christensen et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.06.008Response to letter regarding ‘A decade of exposure: Long-term air pollution and its impact on osteoarthritis: A nationwide cohort study in Taiwan'
Yi-Chuan Chan, Yen-Wei Huang, Shu-Han Chuang, Yi-Jie Kuo et al.
2026-10 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2025.09.004Immuno-spin trapping after Intraarticular Procedures Shows Coordination between Radical Production, Iron Metabolism, and Mitochondria in Articular Chondrocytes
Madeline R. Hines, Emily Witt, Lauren D. McNally, Kevin J. Lu et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.09.008A multi-switch mechanism underlying mechanical force regulation of aggrecan degradation in osteoarthritic cartilage
Yen-Yu Lai, Shu-Wei Chang
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.05.011Radiomics grading of hand osteoarthritis severity using standard radiographs: Results from the DIGICOD cohort
Laetitia Perronne, Antoine Decoux, Loïc Duron, Constance de Margerie-Mellon et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.05.009Adiposity and clinical outcomes of knee osteoarthritis: Sex-specific analysis from the FEAST trial
Indiana Cooper, Lynette Law, Amanda Attanayake, Joshua J. Heerey et al.
2026-09 · DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2026.06.004Reviews
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