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Bulletin of the World Health Organization is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.4), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by World Health Organization.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0042-9686Verify ISSN ↗1564-0604Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: World Health Organization
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 49 / 725 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1949–present (also 1945), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.4.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 49 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 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 8.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 93rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.547, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 210.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization is published by World Health Organization. Its print ISSN is 0042-9686 and its online ISSN is 1564-0604.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization has an h-index of 202 and a 2-year mean of 3.85 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #77 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization published 176 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 208. 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 81 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (13.9%), Switzerland (11.9%) and United Kingdom (11.3%).
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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