Physics in Medicine and Biology's 2026 Journal Metrics Score is 2.7, ranking Q1 in Radiation and 1 other subfield. Two-year citation average from OpenAlex data, updated August 2026.
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Journal Metrics Score 2026 · 2021–2024 window citedness 3.85.
Middle 50%: 99–165 days
100 of 100 PubMed-indexed articles · 100% coverage · 2024–2025
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386 of 2,179 works · same type, year & subfield
21 works · same type, year & subfield
Above field-year expectation
of 1,049 topic-associated OpenAlex sources by lifetime output
FWCI compares papers with the same publication year, type, and field. 1.0 is the world average; above 1.0 is above expectation. This journal's median is 1.06, so its typical recent paper runs about 6% above its field benchmark.
17.7% of recent papers rank in the global top 10% after field normalization. This is easier to compare across specialties than raw citation totals.
Volume is separated from citation accumulation so newer papers are not presented as weaker simply because they are newer.
OpenAlex source records · 2016–2025
2,179 OpenAlex works · 2021–2024
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| Category | Quartile |
|---|---|
| Radiation | Q1 |
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | Q2 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | Q1 |
| Biomedical Engineering | Q2 |
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Physics in Medicine and Biology's 2026 Journal Metrics Score is 2.7, from the August 2026 data release. The score is a two-year citation average computed from OpenAlex (CC0) data: citations received in the most recent complete year to works published in the two prior years, divided by the number of those works.
Physics in Medicine and Biology's best quartile is Q1. By OpenAlex subfield: Q1 in Radiation; Q2 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging; Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine; Q2 in Biomedical Engineering. Quartiles rank journals by Journal Metrics Score within each subfield.
No. Journal Metrics computes the score independently from OpenAlex open data. Other providers use different citation databases, document types, and counting rules, so their published figures for Physics in Medicine and Biology will not match this score exactly. Compare journals using one source at a time.
Across 100 recent PubMed records with both dates, Physics in Medicine and Biology took a median of 141 days from submission to acceptance; the middle half took 99–165 days. This interval includes editorial handling and revisions, so it is not the time to a first decision.
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