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Hearing, Balance and Communication is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 2169-5717Verify ISSN ↗2169-5725Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otorhinolaryngology | 78 / 123 | 36th | Q3 |
| Speech and Hearing | 44 / 68 | 36th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Hearing, Balance and Communication is Q3 in Otorhinolaryngology (rank 78 of 123) and Q3 in Speech and Hearing (rank 44 of 68), by CiteScore 2025.
Hearing, Balance and Communication 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.282, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
Hearing, Balance and Communication is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 2169-5717 and its online ISSN is 2169-5725.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hearing, Balance and Communication has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #75 of 122 Scopus journals in Otorhinolaryngology.
Hearing, Balance and Communication published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 56. 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 99 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Italy (23.1%), India (18.2%) and Türkiye (9.6%).
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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