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Lupus Science and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 2053-8790Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rheumatology | 20 / 77 | 74th | Q2 |
| Immunology | 118 / 243 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.3.
Lupus Science and Medicine is Q2 in Rheumatology (rank 20 of 77) and Q2 in Immunology (rank 118 of 243), by CiteScore 2025.
Lupus Science and 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.442, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,391 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.
Lupus Science and Medicine is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2053-8790.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Lupus Science and Medicine has an h-index of 59 and a 2-year mean of 3.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 74 Scopus journals in Rheumatology.
Lupus Science and Medicine published 163 papers in 2025. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (31.9%), United States (14.5%) and Spain (8.5%).
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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