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Journal of Research on History of Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.2), DOAJ. Published by Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2251-886XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History | 1281 / 1936 | 33rd | Q3 |
| History and Philosophy of Science | 195 / 254 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 443 / 466 | 5th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.2.
Journal of Research on History of Medicine is Q3 in History (rank 1281 of 1936), Q4 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 195 of 254) and Q4 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 443 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Research on History of Medicine 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 Q3, 33rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.159, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 2.
Journal of Research on History of Medicine is published by Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. Its ISSN is 2251-886X.
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 Research on History of Medicine has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,417 of 1,704 Scopus journals in History.
Journal of Research on History of Medicine published 3 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 2013 with 4. 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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