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Ghana Medical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), DOAJ. Published by Ghana Medical Association.
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ISSN 0016-9560Verify ISSN ↗2616-163XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Ghana Medical Association
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 302 / 669 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present (also 1973–1980, 1971, 1962–1963), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Ghana Medical Journal is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 302 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Ghana Medical Journal 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 1.4, quartile Q2, 54th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.312, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 34.
Ghana Medical Journal is published by Ghana Medical Association. Its print ISSN is 0016-9560 and its online ISSN is 2616-163X.
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.
Ghana Medical Journal has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 1.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #256 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Ghana Medical Journal published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 91. 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 Ghana (51%), Nigeria (28.1%) and India (6.3%). 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. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1.3 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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