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DEN Open is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Blackwell Publishing Asia.
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ISSN 2692-4609Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 233 / 597 | 60th | Q2 |
| Internal Medicine | 96 / 179 | 46th | Q3 |
| Gastroenterology | 98 / 176 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
DEN Open is Q2 in Surgery (rank 233 of 597), Q3 in Internal Medicine (rank 96 of 179) and Q3 in Gastroenterology (rank 98 of 176), by CiteScore 2025.
DEN Open 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.497, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
DEN Open is published by Blackwell Publishing Asia. Its ISSN is 2692-4609.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
DEN Open has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #187 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
DEN Open published 217 papers in 2025. 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 (2026), authors are most often from Japan (84.7%), China (2%) and United States (1.2%). 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. 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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