Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 28.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Korean Association for the Study of the Liver.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2287-2728Verify ISSN ↗2287-285XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Association for the Study of the Liver
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Molecular Biology | 10 / 414 | 97th | Q1 |
| Hepatology | 6 / 88 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 28.1.
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology is Q1 in Molecular Biology (rank 10 of 414) and Q1 in Hepatology (rank 6 of 88), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology 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 28.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.937, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 74.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$32 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.
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology is published by Korean Association for the Study of the Liver. Its print ISSN is 2287-2728 and its online ISSN is 2287-285X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology has an h-index of 85 and a 2-year mean of 6.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 28.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 411 Scopus journals in Molecular Biology.
Clinical and Molecular Hepatology published 261 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 261. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (27.7%), China (24.3%) and United States (19.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.