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Magnesium Research is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE. Published by John Libbey.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0953-1424Verify ISSN ↗1952-4021Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Libbey
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 383 / 448 | 14th | Q4 |
| Molecular Biology | 362 / 414 | 12th | Q4 |
| Clinical Biochemistry | 109 / 124 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 1.4.
Magnesium Research is Q4 in Biochemistry (rank 383 of 448), Q4 in Molecular Biology (rank 362 of 414) and Q4 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 109 of 124), by CiteScore 2025.
Magnesium Research 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 14th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.318, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 56.
Magnesium Research is published by John Libbey. Its print ISSN is 0953-1424 and its online ISSN is 1952-4021.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Magnesium Research has an h-index of 33 and a 2-year mean of 1.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #310 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Magnesium Research published 6 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 25. 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 44 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from China (13.6%), Italy (11.4%) and Germany (9.1%).
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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