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Malawi Medical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Malawi Medical Journal.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1995-7262Verify ISSN ↗1995-7270Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Malawi Medical Journal
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 304 / 669 | 54th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present (also 1991–1993), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
Malawi Medical Journal is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 304 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Malawi 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 54th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.352, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 33.
Malawi Medical Journal is published by Malawi Medical Journal. Its print ISSN is 1995-7262 and its online ISSN is 1995-7270.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Malawi Medical Journal has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 0.93 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #271 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Malawi Medical Journal published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 71. 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 87 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (39.1%), Malawi (25.5%) and Türkiye (14.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (1 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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