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BMC Nutrition is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2055-0928Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 158 / 466 | 66th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 256 / 725 | 64th | Q2 |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 76 / 147 | 48th | Q3 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 136 / 250 | 45th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
BMC Nutrition is Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 158 of 466), Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 256 of 725) and Q3 in Nutrition and Dietetics (rank 76 of 147), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
BMC Nutrition 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.703, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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.
BMC Nutrition is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2055-0928.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BMC Nutrition has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #106 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
BMC Nutrition published 243 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Iran (11.5%), Ethiopia (7.7%) and China (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.4 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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