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Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Fukushima Society of Medical Science.
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ISSN 0016-2590Verify ISSN ↗2185-4610Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Fukushima Society of Medical Science
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 156 / 536 | 70th | Q2 |
| Mathematics (all) | 167 / 414 | 59th | Q2 |
| Medicine (all) | 284 / 669 | 57th | Q2 |
| Library and Information Sciences | 135 / 296 | 54th | Q2 |
| Pharmaceutical Science | 120 / 191 | 37th | Q3 |
| Dentistry (all) | 89 / 140 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1964–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.7.
Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences is Q2 in Anthropology (rank 156 of 536), Q2 in Mathematics (all) (rank 167 of 414) and Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 284 of 669), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.320, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences is published by Fukushima Society of Medical Science. Its print ISSN is 0016-2590 and its online ISSN is 2185-4610.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #190 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences published 50 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Japan (94.5%), India (2.1%) and United States (1.8%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (10.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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