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Breast Care is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 1661-3791Verify ISSN ↗1661-3805Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 116 / 597 | 80th | Q1 |
| Oncology | 209 / 428 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Breast Care is Q1 in Surgery (rank 116 of 597) and Q2 in Oncology (rank 209 of 428), by CiteScore 2025.
Breast Care 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.675, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 52.
Breast Care is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 1661-3791 and its online ISSN is 1661-3805.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Breast Care has an h-index of 64 and a 2-year mean of 1.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #239 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Breast Care published 75 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 121. 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 85 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Germany (20.4%), China (14.7%) and Türkiye (13.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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.
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