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GMS Journal for Medical Education is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by German Medical Science GMS Publishing House.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2366-5017Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 195 / 669 | 70th | Q2 |
| Education | 636 / 1698 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–2025, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
GMS Journal for Medical Education is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 195 of 669) and Q2 in Education (rank 636 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
GMS Journal for Medical Education 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.488, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 33.
GMS Journal for Medical Education is published by German Medical Science GMS Publishing House. Its ISSN is 2366-5017.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
GMS Journal for Medical Education has an h-index of 0 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #534 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
GMS Journal for Medical Education published 36 papers in 2021. 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 35 research articles (2021), authors are most often from Germany (71.4%), Switzerland (11.4%) and Austria (7.1%). 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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