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Medical Reference Services Quarterly is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.9). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0276-3869Verify ISSN ↗1540-9597Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Library and Information Sciences | 127 / 296 | 57th | Q2 |
| Health Informatics | 116 / 168 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.9.
Medical Reference Services Quarterly is Q2 in Library and Information Sciences (rank 127 of 296) and Q3 in Health Informatics (rank 116 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Medical Reference Services Quarterly 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, 57th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.364, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 31.
Medical Reference Services Quarterly is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0276-3869 and its online ISSN is 1540-9597.
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.
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 Reference Services Quarterly has an h-index of 42 and a 2-year mean of 0.84 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #145 of 279 Scopus journals in Library and Information Sciences.
Medical Reference Services Quarterly published 40 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 57. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (90.1%), Iran (3%) and Australia (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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