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Mediators of Inflammation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
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ISSN 0962-9351Verify ISSN ↗1466-1861Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immunology | 59 / 243 | 75th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 87 / 289 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Mediators of Inflammation is Q1 in Immunology (rank 59 of 243) and Q2 in Cell Biology (rank 87 of 289), by CiteScore 2025.
Mediators of Inflammation 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.235, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 154.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,040 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.
Mediators of Inflammation is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0962-9351 and its online ISSN is 1466-1861.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Mediators of Inflammation has an h-index of 176 and a 2-year mean of 2.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #124 of 240 Scopus journals in Immunology.
Mediators of Inflammation published 198 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 358. 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 (84.1%), Iran (2.5%) and United Kingdom (2%). 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. 44 retracted papers are recorded (7.6 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.
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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