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Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.3), WoS SCIE. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0740-2570Verify ISSN ↗1930-1111Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,870 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pathology and Forensic Medicine | 31 / 209 | 85th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.3.
Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology is Q1 in Pathology and Forensic Medicine (rank 31 of 209), by CiteScore 2025.
Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology 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 6.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.096, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 84.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,870 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.
Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0740-2570 and its online ISSN is 1930-1111.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology has an h-index of 76 and a 2-year mean of 2.2 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #45 of 208 Scopus journals in Pathology and Forensic Medicine.
Seminars in Diagnostic Pathology published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 86. 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 89 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (72.2%), India (12.4%) and Canada (3.4%). 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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