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International Journal of Medical Education is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS ESCI. Published by International Journal of Medical Education.
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ISSN 2042-6372Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Journal of Medical Education
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 183 / 466 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
International Journal of Medical Education is Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 183 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Medical Education is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.580, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 47.
International Journal of Medical Education is published by International Journal of Medical Education. Its ISSN is 2042-6372.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Medical Education has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 1.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #184 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
International Journal of Medical Education published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 86. 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 100 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (16.3%), Japan (15%) and Canada (10.1%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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