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Digital Medicine

Wolters Kluwer Health · United Kingdom · Est. 2004

ISSN2226-8561

SJR Q4✓ Scopus / SJR

Removed from DOAJ (2017-12-13). 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 ↗

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 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

0.152

H-Indexi

Total Worksi

291

Total Citationsi

847

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.81

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Health Informatics; Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary Language—

1st Year Published2004

Annual Volume~ 25 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications291

Publisher OrgLippincott Williams & Wilkins

Region🌍 Global South

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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

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5/11 · 45%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Wolters Kluwer Health

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2226-8561

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Indexed in a trusted database?

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?

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

126

2019

2020

2021

2022

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.

Health InformaticsQ4

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingQ4

Subject Classification

Scopus Categories

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingHealth Informatics

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Anatomy and Medical TechnologyArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationRadiomics and Machine Learning in Medical ImagingSurgical Simulation and TrainingMobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsAI in cancer detectionAdvanced Radiotherapy TechniquesMedical Image Segmentation TechniquesBiomedical and Engineering EducationLegal and Regulatory Analysis

Frequently asked questions about Digital Medicine

Is Digital Medicine a predatory journal?

Digital Medicine was withdrawn from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) — DOAJ's stated reason: "Journal not adhering to Best practice" (2017-12-13). Withdrawal is not a predatory verdict, but it is a material editorial signal; it remains indexed in Scopus. Verify the journal's current status on DOAJ and its official site before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Digital Medicine?

Digital Medicine is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.152.

Is Digital Medicine indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Digital Medicine is indexed in Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Digital Medicine?