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Frontiers in Medical Technology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (miscellaneous) | 3 / 101 | 97th | Q1 |
| Medical Laboratory Technology | 5 / 42 | 89th | Q1 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 58 / 466 | 87th | Q1 |
| Radiological and Ultrasound Technology | 9 / 64 | 86th | Q1 |
| Pharmacology (medical) | 43 / 278 | 84th | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 87 / 342 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.8.
Frontiers in Medical Technology is Q1 in Health Professions (miscellaneous) (rank 3 of 101), Q1 in Medical Laboratory Technology (rank 5 of 42) and Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 58 of 466), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Frontiers in Medical Technology is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 7.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.910, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 29.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,353 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.
Frontiers in Medical Technology is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2673-3129.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Medical Technology has an h-index of 38 and a 2-year mean of 4.53 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 97 Scopus journals in Health Professions (miscellaneous).
Frontiers in Medical Technology published 73 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 100. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (27.8%), India (7.6%) and United States (7.4%).
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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