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Nigerian Journal of Basic and Clinical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 0331-8540Verify ISSN ↗2320-477XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 394 / 466 | 15th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 658 / 725 | 9th | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 305 / 330 | 7th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–2024, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Nigerian Journal of Basic and Clinical Sciences is Q4 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 394 of 466), Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 658 of 725) and Q4 in Health Policy (rank 305 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Nigerian Journal of Basic and Clinical Sciences 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 0.5, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 15th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.126, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Nigerian Journal of Basic and Clinical Sciences is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 0331-8540 and its online ISSN is 2320-477X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nigerian Journal of Basic and Clinical Sciences has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.09 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #398 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Nigerian Journal of Basic and Clinical Sciences published 25 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 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.
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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