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Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 2221-1691Verify ISSN ↗2588-9222Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 64 / 144 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine is Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 64 of 144), by CiteScore 2025.
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.398, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 95.
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 2221-1691 and its online ISSN is 2588-9222.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 1.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #72 of 141 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous).
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 142. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (22.2%), India (17%) and South Korea (10.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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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