BMC Gastroenterology

ISSN 1471-230x · BioMed Central · United Kingdom · active 1988–2026

Metrics

Scimago quartile
Q2
Cites per paper (2y)
2.6
SJR
0.903
h-index
121

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric. Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline.

Indexing & access

DOAJScopusWeb of SciencePubMed

Access status: gold. Where this comes from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic — confirm on the journal’s own site, especially regarding any article processing charge.

Scope

liverdiseasediagnosistreatmentepidemiologyinflammatorybowelgeneticstransplantationhepatologygastrointestinalmotility

Frequently asked

Is BMC Gastroenterology a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag BMC Gastroenterology. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is BMC Gastroenterology indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, BMC Gastroenterology appears in: DOAJ, Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is BMC Gastroenterology's impact?

Papers in BMC Gastroenterology are cited about 2.6 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q2, with an h-index of 121. This is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric — and a citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

Is BMC Gastroenterology open access?

Our index records its access status as "gold". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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