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Journal of Gene Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1099-498XVerify ISSN ↗1521-2254Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,480 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genetics (clinical) | 41 / 100 | 59th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 167 / 357 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Drug Discovery | 79 / 161 | 51st | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 239 / 414 | 42nd | Q3 |
| Molecular Medicine | 108 / 179 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.8.
Journal of Gene Medicine is Q2 in Genetics (clinical) (rank 41 of 100), Q2 in Genetics (rank 167 of 357) and Q2 in Drug Discovery (rank 79 of 161), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Journal of Gene Medicine 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 59th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.746, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 104.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,480 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 Gene Medicine is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1099-498X and its online ISSN is 1521-2254.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Gene Medicine has an h-index of 108 and a 2-year mean of 2.77 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 99 Scopus journals in Genetics (clinical).
Journal of Gene Medicine published 86 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 185. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (62.3%), India (6.7%) and United States (5.1%). 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. 16 retracted papers are recorded (5 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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