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Discover public health is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 152 / 173 | 12th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 641 / 725 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.6.
Discover public health is Q4 in Epidemiology (rank 152 of 173) and Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 641 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Discover public 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 0.6, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 12th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.354, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 47.
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Discover public health is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 3005-0774.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Discover public health has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 1.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.6, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #105 of 171 Scopus journals in Epidemiology.
Discover public health published 909 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (14.2%), United States (13.2%) and Nigeria (9.6%).
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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