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Medical Humanities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.9), WoS AHCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1468-215XVerify ISSN ↗1473-4265Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 85 / 891 | 90th | Q1 |
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 100 / 209 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present (also 1997), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.9.
Medical Humanities is Q1 in Philosophy (rank 85 of 891) and Q2 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 100 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
Medical Humanities is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.417, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 39.
Medical Humanities is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 1468-215X and its online ISSN is 1473-4265.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medical Humanities has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 1.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #110 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Medical Humanities published 105 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (33.1%), United States (13.5%) and India (8.6%).
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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