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PET Clinics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.3), WoS ESCI. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 1556-8598Verify ISSN ↗1559-7814Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,400 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radiation | 12 / 75 | 84th | Q1 |
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 83 / 361 | 77th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.3.
PET Clinics is Q1 in Radiation (rank 12 of 75) and Q1 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 83 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
PET Clinics 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.705, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,400 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.
PET Clinics is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 1556-8598 and its online ISSN is 1559-7814.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
PET Clinics has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 1.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 62 Scopus journals in Radiation.
PET Clinics published 78 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 82. 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 86 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (43.5%), India (15.1%) and Canada (8.3%).
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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