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Journal of Medical Education Development is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), DOAJ. Published by Zanjan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services.
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ISSN 2251-9521Verify ISSN ↗2980-7670Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Zanjan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 361 / 466 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Education | 1363 / 1698 | 19th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Journal of Medical Education Development is Q4 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 361 of 466) and Q4 in Education (rank 1363 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Medical Education Development is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4, 22nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.169, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Journal of Medical Education Development is published by Zanjan University of Medical Sciences and Health Services. Its print ISSN is 2251-9521 and its online ISSN is 2980-7670.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Medical Education Development has an h-index of 7 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #413 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Journal of Medical Education Development published 19 papers in 2023; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 40. 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 70 research articles (2021–2023), authors are most often from Iran (90%), India (8.6%) and Oman (0.7%). 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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