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China Tropical Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.4). Published by Editorial Department of China Tropical Medicine.
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ISSN 1009-9727Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Editorial Department of China Tropical Medicine
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 330 / 361 | 8th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 675 / 725 | 6th | Q4 |
| Biochemistry (medical) | 74 / 78 | 5th | Q4 |
| Immunology and Allergy | 221 / 234 | 5th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.4.
China Tropical Medicine is Q4 in Infectious Diseases (rank 330 of 361), Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 675 of 725) and Q4 in Biochemistry (medical) (rank 74 of 78), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
China Tropical Medicine is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4, 8th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.137, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 9.
China Tropical Medicine is published by Editorial Department of China Tropical Medicine. Its ISSN is 1009-9727.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
China Tropical Medicine has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #330 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
China Tropical Medicine published 50 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 457. 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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