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AIMS Public Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), WoS ESCI. Published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
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ISSN 2327-8994Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Cost to publish: About US$300 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 133 / 725 | 81st | Q1 |
| Health Informatics | 52 / 168 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
AIMS Public Health is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 133 of 725) and Q2 in Health Informatics (rank 52 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
AIMS Public 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 5.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.898, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 25.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$300 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.
AIMS Public Health is published by American Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Its ISSN is 2327-8994.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
AIMS Public Health has an h-index of 45 and a 2-year mean of 6.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
AIMS Public Health published 64 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 71. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (13.3%), Greece (10.7%) and Spain (9.5%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (2.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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