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Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.1), WoS SCIE. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
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ISSN 0016-5751Verify ISSN ↗1438-8804Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maternity and Midwifery | 14 / 45 | 70th | Q2 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 123 / 218 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1950–present (also 1947–1948), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.1.
Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde is Q2 in Maternity and Midwifery (rank 14 of 45) and Q3 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 123 of 218), by CiteScore 2025.
Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.367, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 45.
Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0016-5751 and its online ISSN is 1438-8804.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 0.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 44 Scopus journals in Maternity and Midwifery.
Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde published 480 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 1,438. 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 78 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Germany (91.7%), Türkiye (2.6%) and Brazil (1.3%). 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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