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Ear and Hearing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd..
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ISSN 0196-0202Verify ISSN ↗1538-4667Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speech and Hearing | 2 / 68 | 97th | Q1 |
| Otorhinolaryngology | 12 / 123 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
Ear and Hearing is Q1 in Speech and Hearing (rank 2 of 68) and Q1 in Otorhinolaryngology (rank 12 of 123), by CiteScore 2025.
Ear and Hearing 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.117, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 136.
Ear and Hearing is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0196-0202 and its online ISSN is 1538-4667.
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.
Ear and Hearing has an h-index of 173 and a 2-year mean of 2.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 68 Scopus journals in Speech and Hearing.
Ear and Hearing published 153 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 197. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (42.6%), China (12.9%) and Australia (6.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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