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Tropical Biomedicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS SCIE. Published by Malaysian Society for Parasitology.
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ISSN 0127-5720Verify ISSN ↗2521-9855Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Malaysian Society for Parasitology
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 257 / 361 | 28th | Q3 |
| Parasitology | 63 / 82 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Tropical Biomedicine is Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 257 of 361) and Q4 in Parasitology (rank 63 of 82), by CiteScore 2025.
Tropical Biomedicine 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 28th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.275, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 48.
Tropical Biomedicine is published by Malaysian Society for Parasitology. Its print ISSN is 0127-5720 and its online ISSN is 2521-9855.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Tropical Biomedicine has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 1.03 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #231 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Tropical Biomedicine published 62 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 109. 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 59 research articles (2024–2025), authors are most often from Malaysia (62.7%), Thailand (11.9%) and Indonesia (5.1%). 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. 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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