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Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 12), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1521-690XVerify ISSN ↗1532-1908Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,450 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 22 / 250 | 91st | Q1 |
| Endocrinology | 12 / 132 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 12.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism is Q1 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 22 of 250) and Q1 in Endocrinology (rank 12 of 132), by CiteScore 2025.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism 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 12, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.139, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 138.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,450 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1521-690X and its online ISSN is 1532-1908.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism has an h-index of 153 and a 2-year mean of 3.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 12, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 246 Scopus journals in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism published 69 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 81. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (18.3%), Germany (13.5%) and United States (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 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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