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Indian Journal of Medical Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Scientific Scholar LLC.
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ISSN 0971-5916Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Scientific Scholar LLC
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 157 / 669 | 76th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 105 / 223 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1991–present (also 1978–1989, 1950–1975, 1945–1947), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
Indian Journal of Medical Research is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 157 of 669) and Q2 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 105 of 223), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Medical 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 76th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.605, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 116.
Indian Journal of Medical Research is published by Scientific Scholar LLC. Its ISSN is 0971-5916.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Journal of Medical Research has an h-index of 94 and a 2-year mean of 4.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #51 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Indian Journal of Medical Research published 222 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 391. 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 (2026), authors are most often from India (86.1%), Türkiye (3.2%) and Austria (2.1%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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