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Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences

Fukushima Society of Medical Science · Japan

ISSN0016-2590eISSN2185-4610

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

Find the journal’s official page ↗Open the official JCR record on Clarivate ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.32

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.407

Total Worksi

567

Total Citationsi

3,812

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.50

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medicine, General & Internal; Anthropology; Library and Information Sciences; Dentistry (miscellaneous); Mathematics (miscellaneous); Medicine (miscellaneous); Pharmaceutical Science.

General Information

Country / RegionJapan

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 37 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications567

Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Fukushima Society of Medical Science

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

0016-2590 / 2185-4610

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

151

2019

267

2020

2021

128

2022

101

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

AnthropologyQ2

Library and Information SciencesQ2

Dentistry (miscellaneous)Q3

Mathematics (miscellaneous)Q3

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Pharmaceutical ScienceQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medicine, General & Internal

Scopus Categories

AnthropologyMathematics (miscellaneous)Library and Information SciencesDentistry (miscellaneous)Pharmaceutical ScienceMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Radioactive contamination and transferMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitationSpine and Intervertebral Disc PathologyRisk Perception and ManagementRadioactivity and Radon MeasurementsRenal Diseases and GlomerulopathiesSystemic Lupus Erythematosus ResearchGastric Cancer Management and OutcomesPancreatic and Hepatic Oncology ResearchVasculitis and related conditions

Frequently asked questions about Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences

Is Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences?

Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.50.

Is Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Fukushima Journal of Medical Sciences?