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Cephalalgia is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.6), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 0333-1024Verify ISSN ↗1468-2982Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neurology (clinical) | 40 / 403 | 90th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1981–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.6.
Cephalalgia is Q1 in Neurology (clinical) (rank 40 of 403), by CiteScore 2025.
Cephalalgia 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 9.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.178, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 153.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 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.
Cephalalgia is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0333-1024 and its online ISSN is 1468-2982.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Cephalalgia has an h-index of 179 and a 2-year mean of 5.55 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 403 Scopus journals in Neurology (clinical).
Cephalalgia published 194 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 207. 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 United States (14.1%), Italy (10.4%) and China (10%).
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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