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Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Pakistan Medical Association.
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ISSN 0030-9982Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pakistan Medical Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 332 / 669 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present (also 1966), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.3.
Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 332 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 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 1.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.250, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 57.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$650 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 the Pakistan Medical Association is published by Pakistan Medical Association. Its ISSN is 0030-9982.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association has an h-index of 27 and a 2-year mean of 0.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #344 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association published 601 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 807. 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 77 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Pakistan (71.4%), India (6.5%) and China (5.8%). 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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