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Australian Journal of Rural Health is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1038-5282Verify ISSN ↗1440-1584Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,570 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Practice | 16 / 59 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 318 / 725 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.2.
Australian Journal of Rural Health is Q2 in Family Practice (rank 16 of 59) and Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 318 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Australian Journal of Rural 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 3.2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 73rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.713, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 63.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,570 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.
Australian Journal of Rural Health is published by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1038-5282 and its online ISSN is 1440-1584.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Australian Journal of Rural Health has an h-index of 77 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #15 of 55 Scopus journals in Family Practice.
Australian Journal of Rural Health published 152 papers in 2025. 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 Australia (88.5%), Canada (3.5%) and New Zealand (3.2%). 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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