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Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 14.4), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Korean Society for the Study of Obesity.
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ISSN 2508-6235Verify ISSN ↗2508-7576Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society for the Study of Obesity
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 17 / 250 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 14.4.
Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome is Q1 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 17 of 250), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome 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 14.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.116, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome is published by Korean Society for the Study of Obesity. Its print ISSN is 2508-6235 and its online ISSN is 2508-7576.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 5.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 14.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #25 of 246 Scopus journals in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.
Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome published 52 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 53. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (54.3%), United States (6%) and Iran (5.1%). 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 (4.1 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.
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