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Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Via Medica.
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ISSN 0239-8508Verify ISSN ↗1897-5631Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Via Medica
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 69 / 209 | 67th | Q2 |
| Histology | 28 / 62 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica is Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 69 of 209) and Q2 in Histology (rank 28 of 62), by CiteScore 2025.
Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.478, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$399 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.
Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica is published by Via Medica. Its print ISSN is 0239-8508 and its online ISSN is 1897-5631.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica has an h-index of 46 and a 2-year mean of 1.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #57 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica published 20 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 32. 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 94 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from China (70.2%), Poland (7.5%) and Montenegro (3.7%). 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. 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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