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Philosophy and Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH.
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ISSN 0376-7418Verify ISSN ↗2215-0080Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | 578 / 891 | 35th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 320 / 330 | 3rd | Q4 |
| Nursing (miscellaneous) | 54 / 55 | 2nd | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present (also 2008–2013), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Philosophy and Medicine is Q3 in Philosophy (rank 578 of 891), Q4 in Health Policy (rank 320 of 330) and Q4 in Nursing (miscellaneous) (rank 54 of 55), by CiteScore 2025.
Philosophy and Medicine is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3, 35th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric.
Philosophy and Medicine is published by Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Its print ISSN is 0376-7418 and its online ISSN is 2215-0080.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Philosophy and Medicine has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #157 of 805 Scopus journals in Philosophy.
Philosophy and Medicine published 33 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 105. 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.
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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