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Exploration of Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), DOAJ. Published by Open Exploration Publishing Inc.
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ISSN 2692-3106Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Open Exploration Publishing Inc
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 207 / 669 | 69th | Q2 |
| Molecular Medicine | 144 / 179 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Exploration of Medicine is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 207 of 669) and Q4 in Molecular Medicine (rank 144 of 179), by CiteScore 2025.
Exploration of Medicine is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2, 69th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.494, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 18.
Exploration of Medicine is published by Open Exploration Publishing Inc. Its ISSN is 2692-3106.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Exploration of Medicine has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 2.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Exploration of Medicine published 111 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (16%), Italy (15.1%) and China (9.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (4.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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