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Journal of Cytology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 0970-9371Verify ISSN ↗0974-5165Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 150 / 209 | 28th | Q3 |
| Histology | 49 / 62 | 21st | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2007–present (also 1985–1988), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
Journal of Cytology is Q3 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 150 of 209) and Q4 in Histology (rank 49 of 62), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cytology 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 28th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.248, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 28.
Journal of Cytology is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 0970-9371 and its online ISSN is 0974-5165.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Cytology has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 0.54 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #149 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Journal of Cytology published 42 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 69. 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 91 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from India (76.4%), Türkiye (8.8%) and Japan (5.5%). 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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