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Phlebology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0268-3555Verify ISSN ↗1758-1125Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$4,150 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 216 / 409 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.7.
Phlebology is Q3 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 216 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Phlebology 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 2.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 47th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.452, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 64.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,150 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.
Phlebology is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0268-3555 and its online ISSN is 1758-1125.
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.
Phlebology has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 1.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #211 of 398 Scopus journals in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.
Phlebology published 127 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 130. 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 79 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (25.3%), China (16.5%) and United States (7.6%).
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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