Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Scientific World Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.6), DOAJ. Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1537-744XVerify ISSN ↗2356-6140Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (all) | 59 / 669 | 91st | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 50 / 223 | 77th | Q1 |
| Environmental Science (all) | 58 / 249 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.6.
Scientific World Journal is Q1 in Medicine (all) (rank 59 of 669), Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 50 of 223) and Q1 in Environmental Science (all) (rank 58 of 249), by CiteScore 2025.
Scientific World Journal 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 6.6, quartile Q1, 91st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.661, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 146.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$860 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.
Scientific World Journal is published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1537-744X and its online ISSN is 2356-6140.
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.
Scientific World Journal has an h-index of 182 and a 2-year mean of 3.7 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 646 Scopus journals in Medicine (all).
Scientific World Journal published 143 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 186. 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 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Ethiopia (13.5%), Indonesia (9%) and Bangladesh (8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 76 retracted papers are recorded (6.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 4 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
Comments load as you scroll here.