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Laboratory Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0007-5027Verify ISSN ↗1943-7730Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,535 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry (medical) | 47 / 78 | 40th | Q3 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 96 / 124 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1985–present (also 1973–1975), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.3.
Laboratory Medicine is Q3 in Biochemistry (medical) (rank 47 of 78) and Q4 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 96 of 124), by CiteScore 2025.
Laboratory Medicine 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.361, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,535 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.
Laboratory Medicine is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 0007-5027 and its online ISSN is 1943-7730.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Laboratory Medicine has an h-index of 57 and a 2-year mean of 1.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #46 of 77 Scopus journals in Biochemistry (medical).
Laboratory Medicine published 120 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 164. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (23.2%), United States (21.6%) and Türkiye (8.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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