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Current Medical Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
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ISSN 2096-5230Verify ISSN ↗2523-899XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Cost to publish: About US$3,890 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 171 / 669 | 74th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 228 / 357 | 36th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 302 / 448 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Current Medical Science is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 171 of 669), Q3 in Genetics (rank 228 of 357) and Q3 in Biochemistry (rank 302 of 448), by CiteScore 2025.
Current Medical 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.541, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 45.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,890 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.
Current Medical Science is published by Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Its print ISSN is 2096-5230 and its online ISSN is 2523-899X.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Current Medical Science has an h-index of 47 and a 2-year mean of 2.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #114 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Current Medical Science published 139 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 169. 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 China (71.5%), Hong Kong SAR China (7.9%) and India (6.1%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (2.6 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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