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Advances in Laboratory Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Laboratory Technology | 22 / 42 | 48th | Q3 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 268 / 466 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Education | 979 / 1698 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Advances in Laboratory Medicine is Q3 in Medical Laboratory Technology (rank 22 of 42), Q3 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 268 of 466) and Q3 in Education (rank 979 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Advances in Laboratory Medicine is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.327, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Advances in Laboratory Medicine is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its ISSN is 2628-491X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Advances in Laboratory Medicine has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #24 of 42 Scopus journals in Medical Laboratory Technology.
Advances in Laboratory Medicine published 80 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 84. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Spain (67.5%), Italy (7.5%) and Croatia (4%). 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. 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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