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Discover Mental Health is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.2), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 2731-4383Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 423 / 725 | 41st | Q3 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 366 / 580 | 36th | Q3 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) | 92 / 144 | 36th | Q3 |
| Molecular Medicine | 154 / 179 | 14th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.2.
Discover Mental Health is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 423 of 725), Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 366 of 580) and Q3 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) (rank 92 of 144), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Discover Mental Health 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.826, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,490 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.
Discover Mental Health is published by Springer Nature. Its ISSN is 2731-4383.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover Mental Health has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 2.11 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #230 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Discover Mental Health published 227 papers in 2025. 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 (9.7%), China (9.4%) and Iran (9.2%).
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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