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BioPsychoSocial Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SSCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 123 / 315 | 61st | Q2 |
| Psychology (all) | 95 / 220 | 57th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 250 / 580 | 56th | Q2 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 34 / 54 | 37th | Q3 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.9.
BioPsychoSocial Medicine is Q2 in Social Psychology (rank 123 of 315), Q2 in Psychology (all) (rank 95 of 220) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 250 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
BioPsychoSocial Medicine is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.651, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,390 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.
BioPsychoSocial Medicine is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1751-0759.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BioPsychoSocial Medicine has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 1.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #111 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
BioPsychoSocial Medicine published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 40. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Japan (61.9%), Türkiye (5.1%) and China (3%). 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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