Cureus
ISSN 2168-8184 · Cureus, Inc. · US · active 1843–2026
Metrics
- Scimago quartile
- —
- Cites per paper (2y)
- 1.0
- SJR
- —
- h-index
- 130
“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 (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.
Data as of 30 September 2026 (venue index build).
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Indexing & access
- Indexed in
- PubMed
- 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
Frequently asked
Is Cureus a predatory journal?
Our screening does not flag Cureus. 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 PubMed, which is a positive signal.
Is Cureus indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?
Per our venue index, Cureus appears in: PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.
What is the impact factor of Cureus?
Papers in Cureus are cited about 1.0 times each within two years of publication, with an h-index of 130. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.
Is Cureus 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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