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British Journal of Dermatology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.9), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 0007-0963Verify ISSN ↗1365-2133Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,920 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dermatology | 5 / 152 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1916–present (also 1910–1912, 1908, 1901–1903, 1898, 1895–1896, 1892), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.9.
British Journal of Dermatology is Q1 in Dermatology (rank 5 of 152), by CiteScore 2025.
British Journal of Dermatology 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 9.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.283, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 226.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,920 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.
British Journal of Dermatology is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0007-0963 and its online ISSN is 1365-2133.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
British Journal of Dermatology has an h-index of 264 and a 2-year mean of 1.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #58 of 144 Scopus journals in Dermatology.
British Journal of Dermatology published 1,107 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 1,409. 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 China (19.2%), United Kingdom (18.7%) and United States (13.9%).
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 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.
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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