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World Journal of Stem Cells is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 5.3), WoS SCIE. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc.
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ISSN 1948-0210Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Histology | 22 / 62 | 65th | Q2 |
| Genetics (clinical) | 36 / 100 | 64th | Q2 |
| Genetics | 150 / 357 | 58th | Q2 |
| Molecular Biology | 216 / 414 | 47th | Q3 |
| Cell Biology | 167 / 289 | 42nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2016–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 5.3.
World Journal of Stem Cells is Q2 in Histology (rank 22 of 62), Q2 in Genetics (clinical) (rank 36 of 100) and Q2 in Genetics (rank 150 of 357), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
World Journal of Stem Cells 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 5.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.884, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 48.
World Journal of Stem Cells is published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. Its ISSN is 1948-0210.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
World Journal of Stem Cells has an h-index of 77 and a 2-year mean of 3.42 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 61 Scopus journals in Histology.
World Journal of Stem Cells published 148 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 32 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (78.1%), India (4.2%) and Türkiye (3.1%). 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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