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Molecular Aspects of Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 21.6), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 0098-2997Verify ISSN ↗1872-9452Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$5,220 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Biochemistry | 2 / 124 | 98th | Q1 |
| Medicine (all) | 12 / 669 | 98th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry | 14 / 448 | 96th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 20 / 414 | 95th | Q1 |
| Molecular Medicine | 9 / 179 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present (also 1976–1985), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 21.6.
Molecular Aspects of Medicine is Q1 in Clinical Biochemistry (rank 2 of 124), Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 12 of 669) and Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 14 of 448), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Molecular Aspects of Medicine 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 21.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 3.427, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 176.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$5,220 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Molecular Aspects of Medicine is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0098-2997 and its online ISSN is 1872-9452.
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.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Molecular Aspects of Medicine has an h-index of 196 and a 2-year mean of 11.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 21.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 121 Scopus journals in Clinical Biochemistry.
Molecular Aspects of Medicine published 68 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 87. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (34.9%), United States (11%) and Italy (9.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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