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npj Digital Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 18.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Nature Publishing Group.
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Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 11 / 466 | 97th | Q1 |
| Health Informatics | 5 / 168 | 97th | Q1 |
| Computer Science Applications | 32 / 1022 | 96th | Q1 |
| Health Information Management | 5 / 64 | 92nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 18.2.
npj Digital Medicine is Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 11 of 466), Q1 in Health Informatics (rank 5 of 168) and Q1 in Computer Science Applications (rank 32 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
npj Digital 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 18.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.215, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 130.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,090 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.
npj Digital Medicine is published by Nature Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 2398-6352.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
npj Digital Medicine has an h-index of 168 and a 2-year mean of 13.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 18.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #6 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
npj Digital Medicine published 884 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (31%), United States (30.5%) and United Kingdom (6.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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