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Life Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2755-1733Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (all) | 2 / 175 | 99th | Q1 |
| Law | 57 / 1162 | 95th | Q1 |
| Mathematics (all) | 25 / 414 | 94th | Q1 |
| Social Sciences (miscellaneous) | 63 / 744 | 91st | Q1 |
| Medicine (all) | 68 / 669 | 89th | Q1 |
| Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) | 6 / 43 | 87th | Q1 |
| Aging | 20 / 42 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.1.
Life Medicine is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (all) (rank 2 of 175), Q1 in Law (rank 57 of 1162) and Q1 in Mathematics (all) (rank 25 of 414), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 7 subject areas in all.
Life Medicine is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 6.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.754, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 16.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Life Medicine is published by Oxford University Press. Its ISSN is 2755-1733.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Life Medicine has an h-index of 22 and a 2-year mean of 5.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 158 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (all).
Life Medicine published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 59. 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 100 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (80.4%), United States (6.3%) and Hong Kong SAR China (3.8%). 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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