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Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE. Published by College of American Pathologists.
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ISSN 0003-9985Verify ISSN ↗1543-2165Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: College of American Pathologists
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 34 / 209 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Medical Laboratory Technology | 8 / 42 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 34 of 209) and Q1 in Medical Laboratory Technology (rank 8 of 42), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.131, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 149.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine is published by College of American Pathologists. Its print ISSN is 0003-9985 and its online ISSN is 1543-2165.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine has an h-index of 163 and a 2-year mean of 2.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine published 123 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 271. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (59.8%), China (6.4%) and Canada (5.1%). 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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