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Journal of Radiation Protection and Research

Korean Association for Radiation Protection · South Korea · Est. 1976

ISSN2508-1888eISSN2466-2461

SJR Q3✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.285

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.674

Total Worksi

878

Total Citationsi

1,535

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.57

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Nuclear Science & Technology; Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Radiation; Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging; Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

General Information

Country / RegionSouth Korea

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1976

Annual Volume~ 29 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications878

OA Since2015

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?

Korean Association for Radiation Protection

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Does the journal have a website?

No URL

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Is the ISSN verified?

2508-1888 / 2466-2461

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, 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?

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

2019

112

2020

110

2021

112

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.

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ3

RadiationQ3

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingQ3

Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Nuclear Science & TechnologyRadiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging

Scopus Categories

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and ImagingRadiationPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studiesNuclear and radioactivity studiesRadioactive contamination and transferRadiation Dose and ImagingRadiation Detection and Scintillator TechnologiesRadioactivity and Radon MeasurementsAdvanced Radiotherapy TechniquesNuclear Physics and ApplicationsLegal and Regulatory AnalysisLinguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies

Frequently asked questions about Journal of Radiation Protection and Research

Is Journal of Radiation Protection and Research a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal of Radiation Protection and Research: 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 Journal of Radiation Protection and Research?

Journal of Radiation Protection 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 0.57.

Is Journal of Radiation Protection and Research indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal of Radiation Protection and Research is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.