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Communications Medicineopen access

SJR 2024

2.098 Q1

H-Index

28

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

2730664X

Coverage

2021-2025

Scope

Open-access journal publishing high quality, editorially selected and peer reviewed advances across clinical, translational, and public health research. Communications Medicine is a selective open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary across all clinical, translational, and public health research fields. The journal aims to foster collaboration across these different communities to facilitate discovery that will promote health and improve patients’ lives globally. Primary research papers published by the journal represent significant advances in preventing, diagnosing, or treating human disease. Communications Medicine is supportive of Springer Nature’s effort to advance progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG3: Good health and wellbeing and SDG5: Gender equality. We welcome submissions that are relevant to the goals of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages, as well as of promoting gender equality in health, medical practice, and research.

Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Assessment and Diagnosis2024Q1
Epidemiology2024Q1
Internal Medicine2024Q1
Medicine (miscellaneous)2024Q1
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2024Q1
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20242.098
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
202161
2022156
2023186
2024270
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20210
External Cites per document20225.180
External Cites per document20234.691
External Cites per document20245.854
Cites per document20210.000
Cites per document20225.197
Cites per document20234.751
Cites per document20245.898
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
202137.70
202249.36
202350.00
202447.41
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20210
Uncited documents202219
Uncited documents202339
Uncited documents202472
Cited documents20210
Cited documents202242
Cited documents2023178
Cited documents2024331
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
202147.17
202242.22
202341.55
202439.54
Estimated APC

It estimates the article processing charges (APCs) a journal might charge, based on its visibility, prestige, and impact as measured by the SJR. It does not reflect the actual APC, but rather a calculated approximation based on journal quality.

YearEst. APC (USD)
2021
2022
2023
20243817
Estimated financial value

It represents the potential financial worth of a journal. It is obtained by multiplying the journal's Estimated APC by the total number of citable documents published over the past five years. This value reflects the hypothetical revenue a journal could generate based on its estimated publication costs and scholarly output.

YearEst. value (USD)
2021
2022
2023
20241030492
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20210
Self Cites20221
Self Cites202313
Self Cites202418
Total Cites20210
Total Cites2022317
Total Cites20231031
Total Cites20242377
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20210.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20225.197
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20234.751
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20245.898
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20210.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20225.197
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20234.751
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20245.898
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20210.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20225.197
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20234.751
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20246.015
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20210
Non-citable documents202220
Non-citable documents202341
Non-citable documents202453
Citable documents20210
Citable documents202241
Citable documents2023176
Citable documents2024350
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20218
Overton202222
Overton202311
Overton20244
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evolution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG20210
SDG20220
SDG20230
SDG2024140
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