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African Vision and Eye Health is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 2410-1516Verify ISSN ↗2413-3183Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ophthalmology | 101 / 147 | 31st | Q3 |
| Optometry | 11 / 15 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
African Vision and Eye Health is Q3 in Ophthalmology (rank 101 of 147) and Q3 in Optometry (rank 11 of 15), by CiteScore 2025.
African Vision and Eye Health is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.266, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$615 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
African Vision and Eye Health is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 2410-1516 and its online ISSN is 2413-3183.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
African Vision and Eye Health has an h-index of 24 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #89 of 146 Scopus journals in Ophthalmology.
African Vision and Eye Health published 41 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 51. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 99 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (67.9%), Ghana (5.8%) and Saudi Arabia (4.4%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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