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BMC Women's Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1472-6874Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reproductive Medicine | 19 / 99 | 81st | Q1 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 42 / 218 | 80th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
BMC Women's Health is Q1 in Reproductive Medicine (rank 19 of 99) and Q1 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 42 of 218), by CiteScore 2025.
BMC Women's Health is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.024, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 80.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,890 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 Women's Health is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1472-6874.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BMC Women's Health has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 3.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #9 of 97 Scopus journals in Reproductive Medicine.
BMC Women's Health published 692 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (40.2%), Türkiye (10%) and Iran (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 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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