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Ghana Medical Journal

Ghana Medical Association · Ghana

ISSN0016-9560eISSN2616-163X

SJR Q3✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.312

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.305

Total Worksi

465

Total Citationsi

3,152

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.69

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medicine. Topics: medicine, health care, medical sciences, therapeutic drug, clinical characteristics

General Information

Country / RegionGhana

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Frequencyquarterly

StatusActive

Total Publications465

Publisher OrgAfrican Journals OnLine

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer ReviewDouble-blind

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

9/11 · 82%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Ghana Medical Association

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0016-9560 / 2616-163X

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Double-blind

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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?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

630

2019

853

2020

287

2021

315

2022

111

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.

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Global Maternal and Child HealthCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesAdolescent Sexual and Reproductive HealthVaccine Coverage and HesitancyCOVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Frequently asked questions about Ghana Medical Journal

Is Ghana Medical Journal a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Ghana Medical Journal: it is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Ghana Medical Journal?

Ghana Medical Journal is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.312.

Is Ghana Medical Journal indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Ghana Medical Journal is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Ghana Medical Journal?