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Head and Face Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 1746-160XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otorhinolaryngology | 25 / 123 | 80th | Q1 |
| Dentistry (all) | 37 / 140 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 176 / 403 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.1.
Head and Face Medicine is Q1 in Otorhinolaryngology (rank 25 of 123), Q2 in Dentistry (all) (rank 37 of 140) and Q2 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 176 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Head and Face Medicine 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 4.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.772, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,890 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Head and Face Medicine is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 1746-160X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Head and Face Medicine has an h-index of 73 and a 2-year mean of 3.64 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 122 Scopus journals in Otorhinolaryngology.
Head and Face Medicine published 102 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (26%), Germany (25.2%) and Türkiye (8.2%).
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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