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Contemporary Clinical Dentistry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 0976-2361Verify ISSN ↗0976-237XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthodontics | 18 / 53 | 66th | Q2 |
| Periodontics | 13 / 36 | 65th | Q2 |
| Oral Surgery | 39 / 87 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 2010), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Contemporary Clinical Dentistry is Q2 in Orthodontics (rank 18 of 53), Q2 in Periodontics (rank 13 of 36) and Q2 in Oral Surgery (rank 39 of 87), by CiteScore 2025.
Contemporary Clinical Dentistry 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 66th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.379, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 44.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$250 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.
Contemporary Clinical Dentistry is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 0976-2361 and its online ISSN is 0976-237X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Contemporary Clinical Dentistry has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 0.91 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 53 Scopus journals in Orthodontics.
Contemporary Clinical Dentistry published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 204. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (70.7%), Indonesia (7.4%) and Brazil (6.4%). 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. 14 retracted papers are recorded (7.7 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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