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Environmental Health Perspectives is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 17.7), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Public Health Services, US Dept of Health and Human Services.
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ISSN 0091-6765Verify ISSN ↗1552-9924Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Public Health Services, US Dept of Health and Human Services
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 8 / 725 | 98th | Q1 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 8 / 151 | 95th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1972–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 17.7.
Environmental Health Perspectives is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 8 of 725) and Q1 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 8 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Environmental Health Perspectives 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 17.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 2.746, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 353.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,500 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.
Environmental Health Perspectives is published by Public Health Services, US Dept of Health and Human Services. Its print ISSN is 0091-6765 and its online ISSN is 1552-9924.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Environmental Health Perspectives has an h-index of 410 and a 2-year mean of 8.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 17.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Environmental Health Perspectives published 163 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 306. 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 States (52.9%), China (20%) and South Korea (3.4%). 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. 13 retracted papers are recorded (0.5 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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