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Journal of Contemporary Medical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Nab'a Al-Hayat Foundation for Medical Sciences and Health Care.
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ISSN 2413-0516Verify ISSN ↗2415-1629Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nab'a Al-Hayat Foundation for Medical Sciences and Health Care
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dentistry (miscellaneous) | 30 / 66 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of Contemporary Medical Sciences is Q2 in Dentistry (miscellaneous) (rank 30 of 66), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Contemporary Medical Sciences 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 55th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.154, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 6.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$300 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Contemporary Medical Sciences is published by Nab'a Al-Hayat Foundation for Medical Sciences and Health Care. Its print ISSN is 2413-0516 and its online ISSN is 2415-1629.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Contemporary Medical Sciences has an h-index of 13 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 65 Scopus journals in Dentistry (miscellaneous).
Journal of Contemporary Medical Sciences published 77 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 82. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Iraq (47.9%), Saudi Arabia (26.3%) and Iran (10.8%).
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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