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BMJ Open Quality is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2399-6641Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership and Management | 19 / 41 | 54th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 363 / 725 | 50th | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 173 / 330 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
BMJ Open Quality is Q2 in Leadership and Management (rank 19 of 41), Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 363 of 725) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 173 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
BMJ Open Quality 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.711, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,839 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.
BMJ Open Quality is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2399-6641.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BMJ Open Quality has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 2.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 41 Scopus journals in Leadership and Management.
BMJ Open Quality published 349 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 United Kingdom (27.3%), United States (18.7%) and Canada (10.3%).
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.
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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