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Nuclear Medicine Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health.
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ISSN 0143-3636Verify ISSN ↗1473-5628Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 206 / 361 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.4.
Nuclear Medicine Communications is Q3 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 206 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Nuclear Medicine Communications 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.399, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 84.
Nuclear Medicine Communications is published by Wolters Kluwer Health. Its print ISSN is 0143-3636 and its online ISSN is 1473-5628.
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.
Nuclear Medicine Communications has an h-index of 95 and a 2-year mean of 1.17 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #199 of 346 Scopus journals in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.
Nuclear Medicine Communications published 156 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 225. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (24.7%), India (16.8%) and Türkiye (12.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 9 retracted papers are recorded (0.8 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.
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