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Acta Medica Okayama is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Okayama University.
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ISSN 0386-300XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Okayama University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 337 / 669 | 49th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 177 / 223 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Acta Medica Okayama is Q3 in Medicine (all) (rank 337 of 669) and Q4 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 177 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Medica Okayama 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.238, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
Acta Medica Okayama is published by Okayama University. Its ISSN is 0386-300X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Medica Okayama has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #534 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Acta Medica Okayama published 5 papers in 2016; its busiest recent year was 1961 with 10. 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.
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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