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Communicable Diseases Intelligence is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Health Protection Policy Branch, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health.
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ISSN 2209-6051Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Health Protection Policy Branch, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 109 / 173 | 37th | Q3 |
| Infectious Diseases | 256 / 361 | 29th | Q3 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 115 / 147 | 22nd | Q4 |
| Immunology | 201 / 243 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.7.
Communicable Diseases Intelligence is Q3 in Epidemiology (rank 109 of 173), Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 256 of 361) and Q4 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 115 of 147), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Communicable Diseases Intelligence is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.7, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 37th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.352, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 15.
Communicable Diseases Intelligence is published by Health Protection Policy Branch, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health. Its ISSN is 2209-6051.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communicable Diseases Intelligence has an h-index of 53 and a 2-year mean of 1.73 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.7, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 171 Scopus journals in Epidemiology.
Communicable Diseases Intelligence published 67 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 109. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Australia (96%), United States (1%) and South Africa (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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