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Bulletin of the History of Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS AHCI/SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0007-5140Verify ISSN ↗1086-3176Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 485 / 1936 | 74th | Q2 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 349 / 466 | 25th | Q3 |
| Nursing (all) | 112 / 144 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1945–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine is Q2 in History (rank 485 of 1936), Q3 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 349 of 466) and Q4 in Nursing (all) (rank 112 of 144), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.143, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its print ISSN is 0007-5140 and its online ISSN is 1086-3176.
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 Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #745 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Bulletin of the History of Medicine published 46 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 102. 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.
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.
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