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Research in Medical Education is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), DOAJ. Published by Guilan University of Medical Sciences.
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ISSN 2008-7284Verify ISSN ↗2008-952XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Guilan University of Medical Sciences
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 357 / 466 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Education | 1358 / 1698 | 20th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Research in Medical Education is Q4 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 357 of 466) and Q4 in Education (rank 1358 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Research in Medical Education 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 0.7, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.184, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 5.
Research in Medical Education is published by Guilan University of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 2008-7284 and its online ISSN is 2008-952X.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Research in Medical Education has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #413 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Research in Medical Education published 25 papers in 2022; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 40. 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 57 research articles (2021–2022), authors are most often from Iran (100%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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