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Journal of Palliative Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1096-6218Verify ISSN ↗1557-7740Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing (all) | 42 / 144 | 71st | Q2 |
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 55 / 147 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Journal of Palliative Medicine is Q2 in Nursing (all) (rank 42 of 144) and Q2 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 55 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Palliative 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.614, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 116.
Journal of Palliative Medicine is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1096-6218 and its online ISSN is 1557-7740.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Palliative Medicine has an h-index of 135 and a 2-year mean of 1.04 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #69 of 141 Scopus journals in Nursing (all).
Journal of Palliative Medicine published 330 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 430. 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (61.2%), Canada (8.3%) and Japan (3.9%). 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 (0.2 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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