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Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Japan Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry.
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ISSN 0044-5991Verify ISSN ↗1347-5800Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japan Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 91 / 209 | 56th | Q2 |
| Histology | 36 / 62 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 310 / 448 | 30th | Q3 |
| Physiology | 137 / 196 | 30th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 234 / 289 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica is Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 91 of 209), Q3 in Histology (rank 36 of 62) and Q3 in Biochemistry (rank 310 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.725, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 33.
Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica is published by Japan Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry. Its print ISSN is 0044-5991 and its online ISSN is 1347-5800.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 2.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #42 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica published 22 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 22. 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 100 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Japan (86.5%), United States (5.2%) and Egypt (2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). 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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