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Endocrine Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Japan Endocrine Society.
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ISSN 0918-8959Verify ISSN ↗1348-4540Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Japan Endocrine Society
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 119 / 250 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Endocrinology | 78 / 132 | 41st | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1993–present (also 1961–1962, 1954–1958), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Endocrine Journal is Q2 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 119 of 250) and Q3 in Endocrinology (rank 78 of 132), by CiteScore 2025.
Endocrine Journal 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 52nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.770, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 91.
Endocrine Journal is published by Japan Endocrine Society. Its print ISSN is 0918-8959 and its online ISSN is 1348-4540.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Endocrine Journal has an h-index of 101 and a 2-year mean of 2.4 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 246 Scopus journals in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
Endocrine Journal published 132 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 158. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (81%), China (9.9%) and Türkiye (4.2%). 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. 7 retracted papers are recorded (1.5 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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