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Medizinhistorisches Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.4), WoS ESCI. Published by Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH.
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ISSN 0025-8431Verify ISSN ↗1611-4477Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| History and Philosophy of Science | 172 / 254 | 32nd | Q3 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 415 / 466 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.4.
Medizinhistorisches Journal is Q3 in History and Philosophy of Science (rank 172 of 254) and Q4 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 415 of 466), by CiteScore 2025.
Medizinhistorisches Journal is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 0.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.118, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 14.
Medizinhistorisches Journal is published by Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0025-8431 and its online ISSN is 1611-4477.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Medizinhistorisches Journal has an h-index of 11 and a 2-year mean of 0.24 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #116 of 233 Scopus journals in History and Philosophy of Science.
Medizinhistorisches Journal published 11 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 16. 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 68 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Germany (89.7%), Austria (4.4%) and United Kingdom (2.9%). 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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