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Journal of Perinatal Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
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ISSN 0300-5577Verify ISSN ↗1619-3997Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 107 / 351 | 69th | Q2 |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 87 / 218 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.4.
Journal of Perinatal Medicine is Q2 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 107 of 351) and Q2 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 87 of 218), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Perinatal 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 3.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.656, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 85.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Journal of Perinatal Medicine is published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0300-5577 and its online ISSN is 1619-3997.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Perinatal Medicine has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 1.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #74 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Journal of Perinatal Medicine published 192 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 217. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (19.4%), Germany (10.8%) and China (10.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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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