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Biomedical Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Spandidos Publications.
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ISSN 2049-9434Verify ISSN ↗2049-9442Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Spandidos Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 156 / 669 | 76th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) | 26 / 79 | 67th | Q2 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 103 / 223 | 54th | Q2 |
| Neuroscience (all) | 74 / 112 | 34th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.6.
Biomedical Reports is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 156 of 669), Q2 in Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (all) (rank 26 of 79) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 103 of 223), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Biomedical Reports 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.615, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
Biomedical Reports is published by Spandidos Publications. Its print ISSN is 2049-9434 and its online ISSN is 2049-9442.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Biomedical Reports has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 3.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #70 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Biomedical Reports published 181 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 201. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (45.3%), Thailand (13.5%) and Jordan (6.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (3.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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