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Breastfeeding Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1556-8253Verify ISSN ↗1556-8342Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maternity and Midwifery | 6 / 45 | 87th | Q1 |
| Pediatrics | 8 / 28 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 83 / 218 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Health Policy | 132 / 330 | 60th | 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 3.6.
Breastfeeding Medicine is Q1 in Maternity and Midwifery (rank 6 of 45), Q2 in Pediatrics (rank 8 of 28) and Q2 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 83 of 218), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Breastfeeding Medicine 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.686, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 67.
Breastfeeding Medicine is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1556-8253 and its online ISSN is 1556-8342.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Breastfeeding Medicine has an h-index of 85 and a 2-year mean of 1.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 44 Scopus journals in Maternity and Midwifery.
Breastfeeding Medicine published 143 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 176. 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 93 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (36.9%), Türkiye (22.5%) and China (4.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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