Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Blackwell Munksgaard.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0301-5661Verify ISSN ↗1600-0528Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Blackwell Munksgaard
Cost to publish: About US$4,230 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dentistry (all) | 29 / 140 | 79th | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 184 / 725 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1973–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology is Q1 in Dentistry (all) (rank 29 of 140) and Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 184 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 79th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.847, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 121.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,230 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.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology is published by Blackwell Munksgaard. Its print ISSN is 0301-5661 and its online ISSN is 1600-0528.
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.
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology has an h-index of 163 and a 2-year mean of 2.37 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 140 Scopus journals in Dentistry (all).
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology published 92 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 120. 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 United Kingdom (20%), Australia (19.3%) and Brazil (10.4%).
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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.