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Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0301-5629Verify ISSN ↗1879-291XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustics and Ultrasonics | 11 / 54 | 80th | Q1 |
| Radiological and Ultrasound Technology | 25 / 64 | 61st | Q2 |
| Biophysics | 63 / 155 | 59th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology is Q1 in Acoustics and Ultrasonics (rank 11 of 54), Q2 in Radiological and Ultrasound Technology (rank 25 of 64) and Q2 in Biophysics (rank 63 of 155), by CiteScore 2025.
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 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 5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 80th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.691, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 160.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,650 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0301-5629 and its online ISSN is 1879-291X.
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.
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology has an h-index of 192 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 40 Scopus journals in Acoustics and Ultrasonics.
Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology published 1,171 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 1,281. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (40%), United States (17.2%) and Canada (4.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 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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