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Medical Education

John Wiley and Sons Inc · United Kingdom · Est. 1952

ISSN1365-2923

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

1.517

H-Indexi

226

SNIPi

2.404

Total Worksi

12,034

Total Citationsi

330,967

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.97

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education, Scientific Disciplines; Health Care Sciences & Services; Education; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1952

Frequency12 No. A Year, 1999-

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications12,034

Publisher OrgWiley

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Submission Info

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

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

John Wiley and Sons Inc

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1365-2923

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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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

283

2019

405

9.1k

2020

284

3.6k

2021

308

2.8k

2022

291

1.8k

2023

318

1.6k

2024

345

507

2025

157

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.

EducationQ1

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education, Scientific DisciplinesHealth Care Sciences & Services

Scopus Categories

Medicine (miscellaneous)Education

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Innovations in Medical EducationClinical Reasoning and Diagnostic SkillsMedical Education and AdmissionsEmpathy and Medical EducationGlobal Health Workforce IssuesDiversity and Career in MedicineInterprofessional Education and CollaborationHealth Sciences Research and EducationProblem and Project Based LearningPrimary Care and Health Outcomes

Frequently asked questions about Medical Education

Is Medical Education a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Medical Education: 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 Medical Education?

Medical Education 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 1.97.

Is Medical Education indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Medical Education is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Medical Education?