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COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd..
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ISSN 1541-2555Verify ISSN ↗1541-2563Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 69 / 165 | 58th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.
COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is Q2 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 69 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 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 4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.622, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 79.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,650 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.
COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1541-2555 and its online ISSN is 1541-2563.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 2.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 160 Scopus journals in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.
COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 93. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (31.1%), United Kingdom (10.8%) and United States (9.7%).
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.
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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