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Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
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ISSN 1658-631XVerify ISSN ↗2321-4856Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 189 / 669 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2014 (also 2020–present), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences is Q2 in Medicine (all) (rank 189 of 669), by CiteScore 2025.
Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences 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 3.1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 71st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.531, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 1658-631X and its online ISSN is 2321-4856.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences has an h-index of 29 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #189 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Saudi Journal of Medicine and Medical Sciences published 43 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 58. 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 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (64.6%), Egypt (4.5%) and United States (4.3%). 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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