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Hormone and Metabolic Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Georg Thieme Verlag.
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ISSN 0018-5043Verify ISSN ↗1439-4286Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry (medical) | 31 / 78 | 60th | Q2 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 128 / 250 | 49th | Q3 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 66 / 124 | 47th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry | 261 / 448 | 41st | Q3 |
| Endocrinology | 83 / 132 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.1.
Hormone and Metabolic Research is Q2 in Biochemistry (medical) (rank 31 of 78), Q3 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 128 of 250) and Q3 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 66 of 124), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Hormone and Metabolic Research 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 Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.709, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 106.
Hormone and Metabolic Research is published by Georg Thieme Verlag. Its print ISSN is 0018-5043 and its online ISSN is 1439-4286.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Hormone and Metabolic Research has an h-index of 124 and a 2-year mean of 3.27 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #17 of 77 Scopus journals in Biochemistry (medical).
Hormone and Metabolic Research published 83 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 146. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (22.6%), Türkiye (17.4%) and Germany (9.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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