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Stroke is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 13.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wolters Kluwer Health.
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ISSN 0039-2499Verify ISSN ↗1524-4628Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 2 / 73 | 97th | Q1 |
| Neurology (clinical) | 20 / 403 | 95th | Q1 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 21 / 409 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1970–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 13.1.
Stroke is Q1 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 2 of 73), Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 20 of 403) and Q1 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 21 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Stroke 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 13.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.857, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 382.
Stroke is published by Wolters Kluwer Health. Its print ISSN is 0039-2499 and its online ISSN is 1524-4628.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Stroke has an h-index of 458 and a 2-year mean of 2.08 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 13.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
Stroke published 1,751 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 2,416. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (42.1%), China (11.5%) and Canada (6.7%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 28 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 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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