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Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2008-0387Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 167 / 1936 | 91st | Q1 |
| Law | 489 / 1162 | 57th | Q2 |
| Computer Science (miscellaneous) | 138 / 179 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine is Q1 in History (rank 167 of 1936), Q2 in Law (rank 489 of 1162) and Q4 in Computer Science (miscellaneous) (rank 138 of 179), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.301, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 28.
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine is published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Its ISSN is 2008-0387.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine has an h-index of 15 and a 2-year mean of 0.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #202 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 33. 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 (2022–2026), authors are most often from Iran (80.8%), Australia (3.3%) and Albania (2%). 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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