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Diagnostic Cytopathology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1097-0339Verify ISSN ↗8755-1039Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,920 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 126 / 209 | 39th | Q3 |
| Histology | 45 / 62 | 28th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Diagnostic Cytopathology is Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 126 of 209) and Q3 in Histology (rank 45 of 62), by CiteScore 2025.
Diagnostic Cytopathology 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 2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.327, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 78.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,920 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.
Diagnostic Cytopathology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1097-0339 and its online ISSN is 8755-1039.
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.
Diagnostic Cytopathology has an h-index of 90 and a 2-year mean of 0.88 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Diagnostic Cytopathology published 162 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 316. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (41.4%), India (17.3%) and Japan (6.8%).
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.
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