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Journal of Nuclear Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.6), WoS SCIE. Published by Society of Nuclear Medicine Inc..
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ISSN 0161-5505Verify ISSN ↗1535-5667Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Society of Nuclear Medicine Inc.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 11 / 361 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1960–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.6.
Journal of Nuclear Medicine is Q1 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 11 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Nuclear 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 13.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.726, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 255.
Journal of Nuclear Medicine is published by Society of Nuclear Medicine Inc. Its print ISSN is 0161-5505 and its online ISSN is 1535-5667.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Nuclear Medicine has an h-index of 229 and a 2-year mean of 6.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 346 Scopus journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.
Journal of Nuclear Medicine published 420 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 1,004. 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (39.9%), Germany (14.3%) and China (6.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 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.
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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