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AIDS Education and Prevention is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS SSCI. Published by Guilford Publications.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0899-9546Verify ISSN ↗1943-2755Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 220 / 387 | 43rd | Q3 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 444 / 725 | 38th | Q3 |
| Infectious Diseases | 246 / 361 | 31st | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1989–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
AIDS Education and Prevention is Q3 in Health (social science) (rank 220 of 387), Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 444 of 725) and Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 246 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
AIDS Education and Prevention is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 43rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.550, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 83.
AIDS Education and Prevention is published by Guilford Publications. Its print ISSN is 0899-9546 and its online ISSN is 1943-2755.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
AIDS Education and Prevention has an h-index of 101 and a 2-year mean of 0.83 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #247 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
AIDS Education and Prevention published 31 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 48. 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 (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (77.8%), South Africa (2%) and Taiwan (2%). 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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