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Medical Principles and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by S. Karger AG.
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ISSN 1011-7571Verify ISSN ↗1423-0151Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: S. Karger AG
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 98 / 669 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1996–present (also 1994, 1992, 1989–1990), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.9.
Medical Principles and Practice is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 98 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Medical Principles and Practice 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.787, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 70.
Medical Principles and Practice is published by S. Karger AG. Its print ISSN is 1011-7571 and its online ISSN is 1423-0151.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Medical Principles and Practice has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 3 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Medical Principles and Practice published 74 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 132. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (24.5%), Kuwait (9.8%) and China (8.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 11 retracted papers are recorded (3.7 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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