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Clinical Infectious Diseases is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.1), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Oxford University Press.
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ISSN 1058-4838Verify ISSN ↗1537-6591Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Cost to publish: About US$4,763 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 13 / 361 | 96th | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 8 / 147 | 94th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present (also 1988–1990, 1985–1986), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.1.
Clinical Infectious Diseases is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 13 of 361) and Q1 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 8 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Infectious Diseases 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 17.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 96th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.891, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 414.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,763 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.
Clinical Infectious Diseases is published by Oxford University Press. Its print ISSN is 1058-4838 and its online ISSN is 1537-6591.
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 Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Clinical Infectious Diseases has an h-index of 486 and a 2-year mean of 5.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #27 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Clinical Infectious Diseases published 752 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 1,959. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (52.6%), Australia (4.5%) and Switzerland (3.9%). 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. 15 retracted papers are recorded (0.4 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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