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Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.9). Published by Iran University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 1016-1430Verify ISSN ↗2251-6840Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Iran University of Medical Sciences
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 266 / 669 | 60th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present (also 2010, 2005, 1996–1998, 1992, 1989–1990), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.9.
Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 266 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2, 60th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.350, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 43.
Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran is published by Iran University of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 1016-1430 and its online ISSN is 2251-6840.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 0.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #346 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Medical Journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran published 149 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 200. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Iran (86.3%), Kazakhstan (3.6%) and United Kingdom (1%). 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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