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Kuwait Medical Journal is indexed in Web of Science (SCIE). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. Published by Kuwait Medical Association.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0023-5776Verify ISSN ↗1607-8047Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kuwait Medical Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 655 / 669 | 2nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
No — it was previously covered by Scopus but its coverage is now inactive/discontinued (1973–1990).
Kuwait Medical Journal 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 0.1, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 2nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.104, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 12.
Kuwait Medical Journal is published by Kuwait Medical Association. Its print ISSN is 0023-5776 and its online ISSN is 1607-8047.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Kuwait Medical Journal has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4.
Kuwait Medical Journal published 4 papers in 1990; its busiest recent year was 1978 with 5. 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. Updated 2026-10-14.
Scopus status: Inactive — coverage ended 1990. 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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