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Journal of Caring Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.5), DOAJ. Published by Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2251-9920Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (miscellaneous) | 14 / 101 | 86th | Q1 |
| Nursing (all) | 37 / 144 | 74th | Q2 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 173 / 466 | 62nd | Q2 |
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 Q1, CiteScore 3.5.
Journal of Caring Sciences is Q1 in Health Professions (miscellaneous) (rank 14 of 101), Q2 in Nursing (all) (rank 37 of 144) and Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 173 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Caring Sciences 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 3.5, quartile Q1, 86th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.603, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 21.
Journal of Caring Sciences is published by Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Its ISSN is 2251-9920.
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.
Journal of Caring Sciences has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 2.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 97 Scopus journals in Health Professions (miscellaneous).
Journal of Caring Sciences published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 39. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from Iran (58.8%), India (13%) and Indonesia (8%). 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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