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South African Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by South African Medical Association.
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ISSN 0038-2329Verify ISSN ↗2305-8862Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: South African Medical Association
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Obstetrics and Gynecology | 165 / 218 | 24th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1970–1972, 1968), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
South African Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is Q4 in Obstetrics and Gynecology (rank 165 of 218), by CiteScore 2025.
South African Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 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 0.8, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 24th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.170, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 13.
South African Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is published by South African Medical Association. Its print ISSN is 0038-2329 and its online ISSN is 2305-8862.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
South African Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.36 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #155 of 210 Scopus journals in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
South African Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology published 3 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 36. 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 30 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from South Africa (72.8%), Nigeria (3.3%) and Zambia (3.3%). 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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