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International Journal of Stem Cells is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.5), WoS SCIE. Published by Sungkyunkwan University.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2005-3606Verify ISSN ↗2005-5447Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Sungkyunkwan University
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developmental Biology | 28 / 78 | 64th | Q2 |
| Cell Biology | 155 / 289 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.5.
International Journal of Stem Cells is Q2 in Developmental Biology (rank 28 of 78) and Q3 in Cell Biology (rank 155 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Stem Cells 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.855, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 39.
International Journal of Stem Cells is published by Sungkyunkwan University. Its print ISSN is 2005-3606 and its online ISSN is 2005-5447.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Stem Cells has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 3.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 76 Scopus journals in Developmental Biology.
International Journal of Stem Cells published 27 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 49. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (80.8%), China (7.9%) and United States (6.4%). 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. 6 retracted papers are recorded (10.6 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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