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Palliative Medicine Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2689-2820Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 27 / 73 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine | 80 / 147 | 45th | Q3 |
| Health (social science) | 229 / 387 | 40th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Palliative Medicine Reports is Q2 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 27 of 73), Q3 in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine (rank 80 of 147) and Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 229 of 387), by CiteScore 2025.
Palliative Medicine Reports 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 63rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.495, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 12.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,250 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.
Palliative Medicine Reports is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its ISSN is 2689-2820.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Palliative Medicine Reports has an h-index of 19 and a 2-year mean of 1.14 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
Palliative Medicine Reports published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 78. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (33.8%), Japan (23.2%) and Canada (11.9%).
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.
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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