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BMJ Open Respiratory Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2052-4439Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 45 / 165 | 73rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.2.
BMJ Open Respiratory Research is Q2 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 45 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
BMJ Open Respiratory Research is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.235, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 51.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,085 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 Respiratory Research is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2052-4439.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
BMJ Open Respiratory Research has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 2.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 160 Scopus journals in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.
BMJ Open Respiratory Research published 223 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 United Kingdom (26.4%), United States (10%) and China (7.5%).
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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