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Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd.
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ISSN 1009-9158Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Laboratory Technology | 36 / 42 | 15th | Q4 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 194 / 209 | 7th | Q4 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 121 / 124 | 2nd | Q4 |
| Biochemistry (medical) | 77 / 78 | 1st | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine is Q4 in Medical Laboratory Technology (rank 36 of 42), Q4 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 194 of 209) and Q4 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 121 of 124), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Chinese Journal of Laboratory 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 15th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.125, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 10.
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine is published by Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd. Its ISSN is 1009-9158.
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.
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #38 of 42 Scopus journals in Medical Laboratory Technology.
Chinese Journal of Laboratory Medicine published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 319. 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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