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Human Reproduction Update is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 38.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1355-4786Verify ISSN ↗1460-2369Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,490 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 1 / 218 | 99th | Q1 |
| Reproductive Medicine | 1 / 99 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 38.4.
Human Reproduction Update is Q1 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 1 of 218) and Q1 in Reproductive Medicine (rank 1 of 99), by CiteScore 2025.
Human Reproduction Update 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 38.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.991, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 242.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,490 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Human Reproduction Update is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1355-4786 and its online ISSN is 1460-2369.
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.
Human Reproduction Update has an h-index of 273 and a 2-year mean of 14.56 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 38.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 210 Scopus journals in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Human Reproduction Update published 36 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 64. 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 93 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Australia (15.6%), United Kingdom (11.3%) and United States (10.9%).
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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