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Sleep Medicine Clinics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.6), WoS ESCI. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 1556-407XVerify ISSN ↗1556-4088Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$2,950 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology | 5 / 77 | 94th | Q1 |
| Clinical Psychology | 20 / 314 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 52 / 580 | 91st | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 52 / 403 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.6.
Sleep Medicine Clinics is Q1 in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology (rank 5 of 77), Q1 in Clinical Psychology (rank 20 of 314) and Q1 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 52 of 580), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Sleep Medicine Clinics 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 8.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 94th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.376, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 69.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,950 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.
Sleep Medicine Clinics is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 1556-407X and its online ISSN is 1556-4088.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Sleep Medicine Clinics has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 1.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #29 of 77 Scopus journals in Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology.
Sleep Medicine Clinics published 79 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 88. 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 91 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (49.8%), Saudi Arabia (5.3%) and Canada (5.3%).
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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