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Canadian Family Physician

College of Family Physicians of Canada · Canada · Est. 1953

ISSN1715-5258

SJR Q2✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 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

0.378

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.446

Total Worksi

2,450

Total Citationsi

4,731

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.68

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Medicine, General & Internal; Primary Health Care; Family Practice; Medicine (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionCanada

Primary Language—

1st Year Published1953

Annual Volume~ 250 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,450

Publisher OrgCollege of Family Physicians Canada

OA Since2019

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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

5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

College of Family Physicians of Canada

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1715-5258

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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?

N/A

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

2019

2020

428

1.6k

2021

306

1.1k

2022

263

722

2023

234

324

2024

253

186

2025

193

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.

Family PracticeQ2

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Medicine, General & InternalPrimary Health Care

Scopus Categories

Medicine (miscellaneous)Family Practice

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth, Medicine and SocietyHealthcare Systems and PracticesGlobal Health Workforce IssuesHealthcare Policy and ManagementInnovations in Medical EducationClinical practice guidelines implementationHealthcare cost, quality, practicesHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of LifePalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues

Frequently asked questions about Canadian Family Physician

Is Canadian Family Physician a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Canadian Family Physician: 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 Canadian Family Physician?

Canadian Family Physician 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 0.68.

Is Canadian Family Physician indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Canadian Family Physician is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Canadian Family Physician?