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Hospital Topics is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.2). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Informa UK Ltd.
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ISSN 0018-5868Verify ISSN ↗1939-9278Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Informa UK Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 243 / 669 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present (also 1946–1949), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Hospital Topics is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 243 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Hospital Topics 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 2.2, quartile Q2, 63rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.280, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
Hospital Topics is published by Informa UK Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0018-5868 and its online ISSN is 1939-9278.
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.
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.
Hospital Topics has an h-index of 36 and a 2-year mean of 0.97 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #266 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Hospital Topics published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 58. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (30.6%), United States (20.2%) and Iran (10.2%).
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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