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Acta Oncologica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Medical Journals Sweden AB.
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ISSN 0284-186XVerify ISSN ↗1651-226XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Medical Journals Sweden AB
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 130 / 361 | 64th | Q2 |
| Hematology | 61 / 151 | 59th | Q2 |
| Oncology | 221 / 428 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1968–present (also 1963–1966), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
Acta Oncologica is Q2 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 130 of 361), Q2 in Hematology (rank 61 of 151) and Q3 in Oncology (rank 221 of 428), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Oncologica 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.952, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 127.
Acta Oncologica is published by Medical Journals Sweden AB. Its print ISSN is 0284-186X and its online ISSN is 1651-226X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Acta Oncologica has an h-index of 151 and a 2-year mean of 2.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #74 of 346 Scopus journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.
Acta Oncologica published 208 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 357. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Sweden (28.9%), Denmark (22%) and Finland (13%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 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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