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Epidemics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.2), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1755-4365Verify ISSN ↗1878-0067Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 163 / 725 | 77th | Q1 |
| Parasitology | 21 / 82 | 75th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 49 / 173 | 71st | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 115 / 361 | 68th | Q2 |
| Virology | 32 / 86 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Microbiology | 93 / 194 | 52nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.2.
Epidemics is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 163 of 725), Q1 in Parasitology (rank 21 of 82) and Q2 in Epidemiology (rank 49 of 173), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Epidemics 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 5.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 77th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.006, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 60.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,730 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.
Epidemics is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1755-4365 and its online ISSN is 1878-0067.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Epidemics has an h-index of 75 and a 2-year mean of 3.76 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #81 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Epidemics published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 99. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.5%), United Kingdom (18.7%) and Canada (10.2%).
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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