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Medecine Palliative is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI. Published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l..
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ISSN 1636-6522Verify ISSN ↗2213-0098Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Masson s.r.l.
Cost to publish: About US$2,770 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 118 / 147 | 20th | Q4 |
| Oncology (nursing) | 21 / 24 | 14th | Q4 |
| Oncology | 368 / 428 | 14th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1970), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Medecine Palliative is Q4 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 118 of 147), Q4 in Oncology (nursing) (rank 21 of 24) and Q4 in Oncology (rank 368 of 428), by CiteScore 2025.
Medecine Palliative 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 20th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.212, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,770 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.
Medecine Palliative is published by Elsevier Masson s.r.l. Its print ISSN is 1636-6522 and its online ISSN is 2213-0098.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medecine Palliative has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #130 of 145 Scopus journals in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Medecine Palliative published 61 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 89. 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 75 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from France (78.7%), Switzerland (4.4%) and Portugal (2.7%). 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.
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