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Iranian South Medical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.5), DOAJ. Published by Bushehr University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 1735-4374Verify ISSN ↗1735-6954Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Bushehr University of Medical Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (miscellaneous) | 74 / 101 | 27th | Q3 |
| Pharmacy | 40 / 52 | 24th | Q4 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 387 / 466 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.5.
Iranian South Medical Journal is Q3 in Health Professions (miscellaneous) (rank 74 of 101), Q4 in Pharmacy (rank 40 of 52) and Q4 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 387 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Iranian South Medical Journal 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 0.5, quartile Q3, 27th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.135, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
Iranian South Medical Journal is published by Bushehr University of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 1735-4374 and its online ISSN is 1735-6954.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Iranian South Medical Journal has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #91 of 97 Scopus journals in Health Professions (miscellaneous).
Iranian South Medical Journal published 27 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 55. 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 59 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from Iran (100%). 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. 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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