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Acta Cytologica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE. Published by S. Karger AG.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0001-5547Verify ISSN ↗1938-2650Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 98 / 209 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Histology | 37 / 62 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1960–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Acta Cytologica is Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 98 of 209) and Q3 in Histology (rank 37 of 62), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Cytologica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.404, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 70.
Acta Cytologica is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 0001-5547 and its online ISSN is 1938-2650.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Acta Cytologica has an h-index of 77 and a 2-year mean of 1.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Acta Cytologica published 99 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 109. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.8%), India (12.9%) and Japan (8.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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