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Clinical Lactation is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Springer Publishing Company.
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ISSN 2158-0537Verify ISSN ↗2158-0782Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 277 / 351 | 21st | Q4 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 179 / 218 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Clinical Lactation is Q4 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 277 of 351) and Q4 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 179 of 218), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Lactation is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 21st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.175, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 8.
Clinical Lactation is published by Springer Publishing Company. Its print ISSN is 2158-0537 and its online ISSN is 2158-0782.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinical Lactation has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #280 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Clinical Lactation published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 53. 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 80 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (56.9%), Canada (16.9%) and Türkiye (15%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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.
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