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Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1). Published by Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0023-2513Verify ISSN ↗1883-0498Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 371 / 669 | 44th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present (also 1961), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences is Q3 in Medicine (all) (rank 371 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences 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 1, quartile Q3, 44th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.191, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 33.
Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences is published by Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 0023-2513 and its online ISSN is 1883-0498.
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.
Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences has an h-index of 2 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #534 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences published 2 papers in 2019; its busiest recent year was 1960 with 3. 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.
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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