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Clinical Laboratory is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE. Published by Verlag Klinisches Labor GmbH.
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ISSN 1433-6510Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Verlag Klinisches Labor GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 182 / 223 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1997–present (also 1964), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.2.
Clinical Laboratory is Q4 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 182 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Laboratory 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 18th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.263, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 56.
Clinical Laboratory is published by Verlag Klinisches Labor GmbH. Its ISSN is 1433-6510.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinical Laboratory has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #179 of 221 Scopus journals in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all).
Clinical Laboratory published 360 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 369. 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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