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China CDC Weekly is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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ISSN 2096-7071Verify ISSN ↗2097-3101Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 219 / 725 | 69th | Q2 |
| Epidemiology | 61 / 173 | 65th | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 140 / 361 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
China CDC Weekly is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 219 of 725), Q2 in Epidemiology (rank 61 of 173) and Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 140 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
China CDC Weekly 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 69th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.816, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 35.
China CDC Weekly is published by Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Its print ISSN is 2096-7071 and its online ISSN is 2097-3101.
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.
China CDC Weekly has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 2.67 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #167 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
China CDC Weekly published 234 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 272. 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 87 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (92.1%), United States (2.1%) and Taiwan (1.1%). 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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