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American Journal of Public Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.7), ABDC A*, WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by The American Public Health Association.
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ISSN 0090-0036Verify ISSN ↗1541-0048Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: The American Public Health Association
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 132 / 725 | 81st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1971–present (also 1949–1963), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.7.
American Journal of Public Health is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 132 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
American Journal of Public Health is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and 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 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 1.407, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 336.
American Journal of Public Health is published by The American Public Health Association. Its print ISSN is 0090-0036 and its online ISSN is 1541-0048.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is rated A* in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Other commerce, management, tourism and services.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
American Journal of Public Health has an h-index of 422 and a 2-year mean of 2.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #151 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
American Journal of Public Health published 444 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 682. 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 76 research articles (2025), authors are most often from United States (89.3%), China (2.6%) and Slovenia (1.3%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.1 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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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