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Colombia Medica

Facultad de Salud de la Universidad del Valle · Colombia · Est. 1969

ISSN1657-9534eISSN0120-8322

SJR Q4✓ WOS SCIE✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2017-06-24). 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)

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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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q4. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Bottom 25%

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

SJR Scorei

0.188

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.911

Total Worksi

2,545

Total Citationsi

10,513

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.42

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medicine, General & Internal; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionColombia

Primary LanguageSpanish

1st Year Published1969

FrequencyQuarterly

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications2,545

Publisher OrgUniversity of Valle

Region🌍 Global South

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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Facultad de Salud de la Universidad del Valle

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

1657-9534 / 0120-8322

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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?

Spanish

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

759

2018

102

831

2019

773

2020

402

2021

119

2022

170

2023

2024

2025

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)Q4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medicine, General & Internal

Scopus Categories

Medicine (miscellaneous)

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Health and Medical EducationHealth and Lifestyle StudiesPublic Health and Social InequalitiesPublic Health and Environmental IssuesAging, Health, and DisabilityEthics and bioethics in healthcareHealthcare Systems and TechnologyMaternal and Neonatal HealthcareMedical research and treatmentsMosquito-borne diseases and control

Frequently asked questions about Colombia Medica

Is Colombia Medica a predatory journal?

Colombia Medica was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2017-06-24). 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 Colombia Medica?

Colombia Medica 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 0.42.

Is Colombia Medica indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Colombia Medica is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Colombia Medica?