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Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1470-2118Verify ISSN ↗1473-4893Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 88 / 669 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2001–present (also 1973–1975), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 88 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.821, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 96.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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 Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1470-2118 and its online ISSN is 1473-4893.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #168 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London published 257 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 467. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (62.3%), China (7.6%) and United States (4.5%). 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. 2 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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