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Early Science and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.6), WoS AHCI/SCIE. Published by Brill Academic Publishers.
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ISSN 1383-7427Verify ISSN ↗1573-3823Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 668 / 1936 | 65th | Q2 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 138 / 254 | 45th | Q3 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 377 / 466 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.6.
Early Science and Medicine is Q2 in History (rank 668 of 1936), Q3 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 138 of 254) and Q4 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 377 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Early Science and Medicine is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.127, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 31.
Early Science and Medicine is published by Brill Academic Publishers. Its print ISSN is 1383-7427 and its online ISSN is 1573-3823.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Early Science and Medicine has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,115 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Early Science and Medicine published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 47. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (17.3%), Italy (17%) and Germany (10.8%).
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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