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Clinical Science is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 11.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Portland Press Ltd.
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ISSN 0143-5221Verify ISSN ↗1470-8736Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Portland Press Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 26 / 669 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1979–present (also 1973, 1951–1959, 1946–1949), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 11.7.
Clinical Science is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 26 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Science 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 11.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.091, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 174.
Clinical Science is published by Portland Press Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0143-5221 and its online ISSN is 1470-8736.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinical Science has an h-index of 214 and a 2-year mean of 5.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 11.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Clinical Science published 98 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 215. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (32%), United States (29.7%) and Australia (6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 42 retracted papers are recorded (3.8 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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