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Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.2), DOAJ. Published by Rawalpindi Medical University.
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ISSN 1683-3562Verify ISSN ↗1683-3570Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Rawalpindi Medical University
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 1013 / 1221 | 17th | Q4 |
| Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) | 224 / 235 | 4th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 710 / 725 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College is Q4 in Linguistics and Language (rank 1013 of 1221), Q4 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous) (rank 224 of 235) and Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 710 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College 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, 17th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 4.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$35 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College is published by Rawalpindi Medical University. Its print ISSN is 1683-3562 and its online ISSN is 1683-3570.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #715 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Journal of Rawalpindi Medical College published 152 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 156. 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 61 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Pakistan (88.3%), United Kingdom (2.5%) and United States (2.2%). 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. 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.
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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