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Breathe is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.8), WoS ESCI. Published by European Respiratory Society.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1810-6838Verify ISSN ↗2073-4735Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: European Respiratory Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 41 / 165 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.8.
Breathe is Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 41 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Breathe 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 5.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.127, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 48.
Breathe is published by European Respiratory Society. Its print ISSN is 1810-6838 and its online ISSN is 2073-4735.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Breathe has an h-index of 63 and a 2-year mean of 3.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #14 of 160 Scopus journals in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.
Breathe published 102 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 123. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Ireland (13.7%), United Kingdom (13.4%) and Italy (12%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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.
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