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Middle East Current Psychiatry is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd..
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ISSN 2090-5408Verify ISSN ↗2090-5416Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 270 / 580 | 53rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Middle East Current Psychiatry is Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 270 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Middle East Current Psychiatry 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 53rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.675, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Middle East Current Psychiatry is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2090-5408 and its online ISSN is 2090-5416.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Middle East Current Psychiatry has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 2.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #175 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Middle East Current Psychiatry published 112 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 118. 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 96 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Egypt (45.5%), Türkiye (5.2%) and Iran (4.4%).
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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