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Hirosaki Medical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1). Published by Hirosaki University School of Medicine.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0439-1721Verify ISSN ↗2434-4656Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hirosaki University School of Medicine
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 661 / 669 | 1st | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 1973–2014), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Hirosaki Medical Journal is Q4 in Medicine (all) (rank 661 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Hirosaki 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 1st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.101, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Hirosaki Medical Journal is published by Hirosaki University School of Medicine. Its print ISSN is 0439-1721 and its online ISSN is 2434-4656.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hirosaki Medical Journal has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #534 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Hirosaki Medical Journal published 1 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2014 with 11. 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.
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.
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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