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Journal of Liver Cancer is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.7), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Korean Liver Cancer Association.
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ISSN 2288-8128Verify ISSN ↗2383-5001Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Liver Cancer Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surgery | 29 / 597 | 95th | Q1 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 23 / 209 | 89th | Q1 |
| Oncology | 87 / 428 | 79th | Q1 |
| Hepatology | 22 / 88 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.7.
Journal of Liver Cancer is Q1 in Surgery (rank 29 of 597), Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 23 of 209) and Q1 in Oncology (rank 87 of 428), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Liver Cancer 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 6.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 95th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.672, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
Journal of Liver Cancer is published by Korean Liver Cancer Association. Its print ISSN is 2288-8128 and its online ISSN is 2383-5001.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Liver Cancer has an h-index of 21 and a 2-year mean of 5.99 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 585 Scopus journals in Surgery.
Journal of Liver Cancer published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 36. 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 99 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (73.1%), United States (6.6%) and Japan (4%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (5.3 per 1,000 papers). 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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