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Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 1473-2130Verify ISSN ↗1473-2165Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$3,020 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dermatology | 25 / 152 | 83rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present (also 2002), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology is Q1 in Dermatology (rank 25 of 152), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.834, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 75.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,020 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 Cosmetic Dermatology is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 1473-2130 and its online ISSN is 1473-2165.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 3.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 144 Scopus journals in Dermatology.
Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology published 703 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 870. 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 84 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (35.4%), United States (11.4%) and Türkiye (6.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 19 retracted papers are recorded (2.8 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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