Medwave

MEDWAVE ESTUDIOS LTD · Chile

ISSN0717-6384eISSN0717-6384

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ 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.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 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

0.26

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.533

Total Worksi

4,308

Total Citationsi

6,276

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.36

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medicine, General & Internal; Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects; Medicine (miscellaneous); Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionChile

Primary LanguageSpanish, English

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 303 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications4,308

Publisher OrgMedwave Estudios Limitada

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelGold Open Access

Peer ReviewPeer review

OA LicenseCC BY-NC

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

MEDWAVE ESTUDIOS LTD

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0717-6384 / 0717-6384

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Peer review

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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?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

Spanish, 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

375

2019

167

940

2020

216

842

2021

259

2022

439

182

2023

354

119

2024

117

2025

115

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.

Issues, Ethics and Legal AspectsQ3

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medicine, General & Internal

Scopus Categories

Issues, Ethics and Legal AspectsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Health and Lifestyle StudiesHealth and Medical EducationAging, Health, and DisabilityEthics and bioethics in healthcareStress and Burnout Research

Frequently asked questions about Medwave

Is Medwave a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Medwave: it is indexed in Web of Science, 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 Medwave?

Medwave 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 0.36.

Is Medwave indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Medwave is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of Medwave?