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Clinical Biochemistry is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 4.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0009-9120Verify ISSN ↗1873-2933Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Biochemistry | 64 / 124 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present (also 1967–1968), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 4.3.
Clinical Biochemistry is Q3 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 64 of 124), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Biochemistry 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 4.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.690, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 134.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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 Biochemistry is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0009-9120 and its online ISSN is 1873-2933.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinical Biochemistry has an h-index of 154 and a 2-year mean of 1.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #68 of 121 Scopus journals in Clinical Biochemistry.
Clinical Biochemistry published 188 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 242. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Canada (22%), China (16.5%) and United States (13.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 13 retracted papers are recorded (1.1 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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