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Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 1117-1936Verify ISSN ↗2468-6875Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 290 / 669 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present (also 2000–2014), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.6.
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 290 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.323, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$150 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.
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 1117-1936 and its online ISSN is 2468-6875.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal has an h-index of 37 and a 2-year mean of 1.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #256 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal published 70 papers in 2025. 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 92 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (42.4%), Nigeria (30.5%) and China (6.5%).
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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