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BJGP Open

Royal College of General Practitioners · United Kingdom · Est. 1985

ISSN2398-3795eISSN2398-3795

SJR Q1✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.811

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.918

Total Worksi

1,009

Total Citationsi

9,917

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.31

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

BJGP Open is an international, peer reviewed, open access, online-only journal of primary care, which publishes original research and other articles of importance to primary care clinicians, researchers and teachers worldwide.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1985

Frequencybi-weekly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,009

Publisher OrgRoyal College of General Practitioners

OA Since2015

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewOpen

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

📦 Long-term Preservation

PorticoPMC

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

10/11 · 91%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Royal College of General Practitioners

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2398-3795 / 2398-3795

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Open

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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?

Portico, PMC

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Plagiarism detection in place?

Yes

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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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

807

2019

158

3.8k

2020

103

1.9k

2021

933

2022

124

857

2023

146

470

2024

163

192

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.

Family PracticeQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Primary Health Care

Scopus Categories

Family Practice

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Primary Care and Health OutcomesChronic Disease Management StrategiesTelemedicine and Telehealth ImplementationHealthcare Systems and TechnologyPatient-Provider Communication in HealthcareAntibiotic Use and ResistanceGlobal Health Workforce IssuesPharmaceutical Practices and Patient OutcomesDiabetes Management and EducationInterprofessional Education and Collaboration

Frequently asked questions about BJGP Open

Is BJGP Open a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for BJGP Open: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, 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 BJGP Open?

BJGP Open 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 1.31.

Is BJGP Open indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

BJGP Open is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.