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Asia Pacific Scholar is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Centre for Medical Education (CenMed) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore.
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Publisher: Centre for Medical Education (CenMed) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (miscellaneous) | 50 / 101 | 50th | Q2 |
| Reviews and References (medical) | 4 / 7 | 50th | Q2 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 318 / 466 | 31st | Q3 |
| Education | 1236 / 1698 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.9.
Asia Pacific Scholar is Q2 in Health Professions (miscellaneous) (rank 50 of 101), Q2 in Reviews and References (medical) (rank 4 of 7) and Q3 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 318 of 466), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Asia Pacific Scholar 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 0.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.209, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
Asia Pacific Scholar is published by Centre for Medical Education (CenMed) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore. Its print ISSN is 2424-9270 and its online ISSN is 2424-9335.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Asia Pacific Scholar has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.49 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 97 Scopus journals in Health Professions (miscellaneous).
Asia Pacific Scholar published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 75. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Singapore (19.3%), Malaysia (13.5%) and Indonesia (9%).
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 1 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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