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Pathology and Oncology Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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ISSN 1219-4956Verify ISSN ↗1532-2807Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 48 / 209 | 77th | Q1 |
| Oncology | 157 / 428 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Cancer Research | 125 / 233 | 46th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present (also 1995–1996), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Pathology and Oncology Research is Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 48 of 209), Q2 in Oncology (rank 157 of 428) and Q3 in Cancer Research (rank 125 of 233), by CiteScore 2025.
Pathology and Oncology Research 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.742, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 68.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,500 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.
Pathology and Oncology Research is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its print ISSN is 1219-4956 and its online ISSN is 1532-2807.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Pathology and Oncology Research has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 4.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Pathology and Oncology Research published 51 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 221. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from Hungary (38.4%), China (15.3%) and Germany (5.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 25 retracted papers are recorded (8.3 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 2 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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