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Journal of Plastination is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2). Published by International Society for Plastination.
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ISSN 2311-7761Verify ISSN ↗2311-777XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: International Society for Plastination
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Laboratory Technology | 40 / 42 | 5th | Q4 |
| Anatomy | 48 / 50 | 5th | Q4 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 202 / 209 | 3rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal of Plastination is Q4 in Medical Laboratory Technology (rank 40 of 42), Q4 in Anatomy (rank 48 of 50) and Q4 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 202 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Plastination is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4, 5th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.102, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 4.
Journal of Plastination is published by International Society for Plastination. Its print ISSN is 2311-7761 and its online ISSN is 2311-777X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Plastination has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #36 of 42 Scopus journals in Medical Laboratory Technology.
Journal of Plastination published 10 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 14. 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.
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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