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Social Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.3), DOAJ. Published by Social Medicine Publishing Group.
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ISSN 1557-7112Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Social Medicine Publishing Group
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 363 / 387 | 6th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 691 / 725 | 4th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.3.
Social Medicine is Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 363 of 387) and Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 691 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Social Medicine 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 0.3, quartile Q4, 6th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.133, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 11.
Social Medicine is published by Social Medicine Publishing Group. Its ISSN is 1557-7112.
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.
Social Medicine has an h-index of 20 and a 2-year mean of 0.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #286 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Social Medicine published 40 papers in 2025. 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 90 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from India (22.2%), Indonesia (20.6%) and Mexico (11.1%).
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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