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Korean Journal of Medical History is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), WoS AHCI, DOAJ. Published by Korean Society for the History of Medicine.
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ISSN 1225-505XVerify ISSN ↗2093-5609Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society for the History of Medicine
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 166 / 254 | 34th | Q3 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 409 / 466 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present (also 1992–1995), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Korean Journal of Medical History is Q3 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 166 of 254) and Q4 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 409 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Korean Journal of Medical History is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 34th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.138, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 9.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$76 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.
Korean Journal of Medical History is published by Korean Society for the History of Medicine. Its print ISSN is 1225-505X and its online ISSN is 2093-5609.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Korean Journal of Medical History has an h-index of 8 and a 2-year mean of 0.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #177 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Korean Journal of Medical History published 19 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 28. 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 95 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from South Korea (84.2%), Japan (5.8%) and China (4.2%). 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.
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