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Chinese Journal of Medical History is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd.
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ISSN 0255-7053Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1580 / 1936 | 18th | Q4 |
| Cultural Studies | 1236 / 1434 | 13th | Q4 |
| Health (social science) | 379 / 387 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present (also 2014–2016, 1984–2010, 1980–1981), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Chinese Journal of Medical History is Q4 in History (rank 1580 of 1936), Q4 in Cultural Studies (rank 1236 of 1434) and Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 379 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Journal of Medical History 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 18th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.109, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Chinese Journal of Medical History is published by Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House Co.Ltd. Its ISSN is 0255-7053.
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 Medical History has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Chinese Journal of Medical History published 1 papers in 2020; its busiest recent year was 2011 with 17. 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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