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Clinical Medicine and Research

Marshfield Clinic · United States · Est. 2003

ISSN1539-4182eISSN1554-6179

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2017-03-25). DOAJ's stated reason: Journal not adhering to Best practice. A removal from the Directory of Open Access Journals is a quality/transparency signal — it can mean the journal became inactive or failed DOAJ's re-review criteria. This is not proof of predatory practice, but verify the journal's current status and policies before submitting. Check on DOAJ ↗

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.402

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.534

Total Worksi

1,625

Total Citationsi

23,940

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.07

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medicine, General & Internal; Community and Home Care; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published2003

Annual Volume~ 26 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications1,625

Publisher OrgMarshfield Clinic

OA Since2012

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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?

Marshfield Clinic

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1539-4182 / 1554-6179

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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

332

2019

230

2020

249

2021

194

2022

132

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.

Community and Home CareQ2

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medicine, General & Internal

Scopus Categories

Medicine (miscellaneous)Community and Home Care

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifePrimary Care and Health OutcomesHealthcare Policy and ManagementGlobal Cancer Incidence and ScreeningEconomic and Financial Impacts of CancerPharmaceutical Practices and Patient OutcomesChronic Disease Management StrategiesMedication Adherence and ComplianceHealth Sciences Research and EducationDiabetes Management and Education

Frequently asked questions about Clinical Medicine and Research

Is Clinical Medicine and Research a predatory journal?

Clinical Medicine and Research was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2017-03-25). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Web of Science, Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Clinical Medicine and Research?

Clinical Medicine and Research 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 1.07.

Is Clinical Medicine and Research indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Clinical Medicine and Research is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Clinical Medicine and Research?