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Sexual Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 2050-1161Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urology | 48 / 123 | 61st | Q2 |
| Reproductive Medicine | 40 / 99 | 60th | Q2 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 265 / 580 | 54th | Q2 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 149 / 250 | 40th | Q3 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 61 / 93 | 34th | Q3 |
| Endocrinology | 92 / 132 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.6.
Sexual Medicine is Q2 in Urology (rank 48 of 123), Q2 in Reproductive Medicine (rank 40 of 99) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 265 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Sexual Medicine 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 3.6, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 61st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.532, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 40.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,750 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.
Sexual Medicine is published by Oxford University Press. Its ISSN is 2050-1161.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sexual Medicine has an h-index of 48 and a 2-year mean of 2.05 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.6, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 123 Scopus journals in Urology.
Sexual Medicine published 107 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 170. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from China (31.3%), Türkiye (16.3%) and United States (14.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.8 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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.
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