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Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by Hiroshima University Medical Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0018-2052Verify ISSN ↗2433-7668Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hiroshima University Medical Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 613 / 669 | 8th | 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 2020–2025 (also 1964–2018), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences is Q4 in Medicine (all) (rank 613 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences 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 0.2, quartile Q4, 8th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.114, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 19.
Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences is published by Hiroshima University Medical Press. Its print ISSN is 0018-2052 and its online ISSN is 2433-7668.
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.
Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #534 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Hiroshima Journal of Medical Sciences published 2 papers in 2011; its busiest recent year was 1960 with 17. 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.
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