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Hepatology Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Kare Publishing.
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ISSN 1307-5888Verify ISSN ↗2757-7392Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kare Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gastroenterology | 99 / 176 | 44th | Q3 |
| Hepatology | 51 / 88 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.8.
Hepatology Forum is Q3 in Gastroenterology (rank 99 of 176) and Q3 in Hepatology (rank 51 of 88), by CiteScore 2025.
Hepatology Forum 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 44th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.458, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 13.
Hepatology Forum is published by Kare Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1307-5888 and its online ISSN is 2757-7392.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hepatology Forum has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 1.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #104 of 172 Scopus journals in Gastroenterology.
Hepatology Forum published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 44. 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 94 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (44.5%), United States (12.6%) and India (6.7%).
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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