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Frontline Gastroenterology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2041-4137Verify ISSN ↗2041-4145Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gastroenterology | 52 / 176 | 70th | Q2 |
| Hepatology | 34 / 88 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Frontline Gastroenterology is Q2 in Gastroenterology (rank 52 of 176) and Q2 in Hepatology (rank 34 of 88), by CiteScore 2025.
Frontline Gastroenterology 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.898, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
Frontline Gastroenterology is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 2041-4137 and its online ISSN is 2041-4145.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Frontline Gastroenterology has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 0.95 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #108 of 172 Scopus journals in Gastroenterology.
Frontline Gastroenterology published 222 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (63.3%), India (7.2%) and United States (5.7%). 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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