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Sleep Science is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.9), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc..
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ISSN 1984-0063Verify ISSN ↗1984-0659Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 120 / 466 | 74th | Q2 |
| Neuroscience (miscellaneous) | 27 / 74 | 64th | Q2 |
| Behavioral Neuroscience | 35 / 93 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.9.
Sleep Science is Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 120 of 466), Q2 in Neuroscience (miscellaneous) (rank 27 of 74) and Q2 in Behavioral Neuroscience (rank 35 of 93), by CiteScore 2025.
Sleep Science 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 4.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 74th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.564, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 38.
Sleep Science is published by Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. Its print ISSN is 1984-0063 and its online ISSN is 1984-0659.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sleep Science has an h-index of 43 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #302 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Sleep Science published 175 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 336. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Brazil (64.7%), United States (7.8%) and Mexico (3.1%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1 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.
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