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Journal of Lasers in Medical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI. Published by Laser Application in Medical Sciences Research Center.
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ISSN 2008-9783Verify ISSN ↗2228-6721Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Laser Application in Medical Sciences Research Center
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dentistry (miscellaneous) | 14 / 66 | 79th | Q1 |
| Surgery | 231 / 597 | 61st | Q2 |
| Dermatology | 63 / 152 | 58th | Q2 |
| Urology | 59 / 123 | 52nd | Q2 |
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 168 / 340 | 50th | Q2 |
| Nephrology | 45 / 88 | 49th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.8.
Journal of Lasers in Medical Sciences is Q1 in Dentistry (miscellaneous) (rank 14 of 66), Q2 in Surgery (rank 231 of 597) and Q2 in Dermatology (rank 63 of 152), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Lasers in 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.383, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 41.
Journal of Lasers in Medical Sciences is published by Laser Application in Medical Sciences Research Center. Its print ISSN is 2008-9783 and its online ISSN is 2228-6721.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Lasers in Medical Sciences has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 1.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 65 Scopus journals in Dentistry (miscellaneous).
Journal of Lasers in Medical Sciences published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 97. 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 Iran (59.5%), Brazil (7.5%) and Indonesia (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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