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Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7), WoS SCIE. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 1434-6621Verify ISSN ↗1437-4331Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Cost to publish: About US$2,712 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Biochemistry | 29 / 124 | 77th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry (medical) | 20 / 78 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine is Q1 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 29 of 124) and Q1 in Biochemistry (medical) (rank 20 of 78), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine 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 7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.286, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 132.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,712 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 Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 1434-6621 and its online ISSN is 1437-4331.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine has an h-index of 151 and a 2-year mean of 3.18 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 121 Scopus journals in Clinical Biochemistry.
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine published 453 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 458. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Italy (15.2%), China (9.5%) and Germany (9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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