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Frontiers in Digital Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 80 / 466 | 82nd | Q1 |
| Health Informatics | 43 / 168 | 74th | Q2 |
| Computer Science Applications | 260 / 1022 | 74th | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 110 / 342 | 67th | Q2 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.8.
Frontiers in Digital Health is Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 80 of 466), Q2 in Health Informatics (rank 43 of 168) and Q2 in Computer Science Applications (rank 260 of 1022), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Frontiers in Digital 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 6.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 82nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.247, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 49.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,077 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.
Frontiers in Digital Health is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2673-253X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Digital Health has an h-index of 66 and a 2-year mean of 4.96 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #48 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
Frontiers in Digital Health published 504 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 (18.4%), China (14.3%) and India (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 1 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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