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Canadian Journal of Public Health is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.5), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 0008-4263Verify ISSN ↗1920-7476Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$3,190 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 214 / 725 | 70th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1945–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.5.
Canadian Journal of Public Health is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 214 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Canadian Journal of Public Health is indexed in the 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 4.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.815, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 88.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,190 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.
Canadian Journal of Public Health is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 0008-4263 and its online ISSN is 1920-7476.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Canadian Journal of Public Health has an h-index of 102 and a 2-year mean of 1.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #304 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Canadian Journal of Public Health published 155 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 169. 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 99 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Canada (80.3%), France (7.1%) and United States (4%). 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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