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Frontiers in Medicine — Impact Factor
The 2025 Impact Factor of Frontiers in Medicine is 3.6 (Q1 in Medicine, General & Internal; fully open access).
- Impact Factor
- 3.6 JCR 2025
- JCR category
- Medicine, General & Internal
- Quartile
- Q1 in Medicine, General & Internal
- Publisher
- Frontiers
- Open access
- fully open access
- IF source
- frontiersin.org
Position within the field
Ranked 30 of the 40 journals in Medicine, General & Internal on this site (bottom 50%).
Medicine, General & Internal journals with a similar Impact Factor
- Clinical Medicine (RCP) IF 3.9
- Diagnostics IF 3.8
- Postgraduate Medical Journal IF 3.6
- Healthcare IF 3.4
- Journal of Clinical Medicine IF 3.3
- Journal of Korean Medical Science IF 3.2
Author guidelines at a glance
- Case reports
- Accepted. Only cases that substantially advance the field. Title must be 'Case Report: ...'; CARE checklist attached
- Figures/tables
- Up to 4 figures/tables
- OA / APC
- full OA / US$3,100 (B-type CHF 2,500 (approx. US$3,100))
- Submission system
- Frontiers
About this value
The Journal Impact Factor of Frontiers in Medicine (JCR 2025, released June 2026) is 3.6. Values are compiled by cross-checking figures published by publishers and societies against public aggregators; this is not a reproduction of Clarivate Journal Citation Reports™. Confirm the current value on the publisher's page or in JCR before deciding where to submit. The quartile (Q1–Q4) is the journal's relative position within its JCR category; Q1 means the top 25%.
Last updated September 2026. Report errors via the contact form. Other journals in the same category: Medicine, General & Internal.