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Emerging Infectious Diseases is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 9.5), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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ISSN 1080-6040Verify ISSN ↗1080-6059Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 15 / 173 | 91st | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 32 / 361 | 91st | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 17 / 147 | 88th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1995–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 9.5.
Emerging Infectious Diseases is Q1 in Epidemiology (rank 15 of 173), Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 32 of 361) and Q1 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 17 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Emerging 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 9.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.034, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 287.
Emerging Infectious Diseases is published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its print ISSN is 1080-6040 and its online ISSN is 1080-6059.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Emerging Infectious Diseases has an h-index of 331 and a 2-year mean of 6.16 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 9.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 171 Scopus journals in Epidemiology.
Emerging Infectious Diseases published 426 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 671. 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 50 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (40.5%), France (8.4%) and China (4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (0.3 per 1,000 papers). 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.
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