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Comparative Clinical Pathology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.8). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer London.
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ISSN 1618-5641Verify ISSN ↗1618-565XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer London
Cost to publish: About US$3,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anatomy | 29 / 50 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 134 / 209 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.8.
Comparative Clinical Pathology is Q3 in Anatomy (rank 29 of 50) and Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 134 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
Comparative Clinical Pathology is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3, 43rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.244, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 46.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,690 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.
Comparative Clinical Pathology is published by Springer London. Its print ISSN is 1618-5641 and its online ISSN is 1618-565X.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Comparative Clinical Pathology has an h-index of 51 and a 2-year mean of 0.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #31 of 49 Scopus journals in Anatomy.
Comparative Clinical Pathology published 103 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 248. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Nigeria (22.2%), India (21.3%) and Iraq (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 7 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 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.
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