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American Journal of Infection Control is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 0196-6553Verify ISSN ↗1527-3296Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,360 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 73 / 330 | 78th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 165 / 725 | 77th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 50 / 173 | 71st | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 116 / 361 | 68th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1980–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
American Journal of Infection Control is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 73 of 330), Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 165 of 725) and Q2 in Epidemiology (rank 50 of 173), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
American Journal of Infection Control is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.795, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 137.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,360 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.
American Journal of Infection Control is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 0196-6553 and its online ISSN is 1527-3296.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Infection Control has an h-index of 174 and a 2-year mean of 1.23 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #185 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
American Journal of Infection Control published 466 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 695. 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 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (54.9%), China (12.1%) and Japan (3.8%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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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