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Free Neuropathology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), DOAJ. Published by University of Muenster.
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ISSN 2699-4445Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Muenster
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 85 / 209 | 59th | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 209 / 403 | 48th | Q3 |
| Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 77 / 102 | 25th | Q3 |
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 3.6.
Free Neuropathology is Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 85 of 209), Q3 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 209 of 403) and Q3 in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (rank 77 of 102), by CiteScore 2025.
Free Neuropathology 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 3.6, quartile Q2, 59th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.696, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 12.
Free Neuropathology is published by University of Muenster. Its ISSN is 2699-4445.
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.
Free Neuropathology has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #189 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
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 89 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (39.1%), Germany (11.6%) and France (9.2%).
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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