Get an email when this journal's indexing changes
Added to or removed from Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ, FT50, UT Dallas or ONOS. One confirmation click; unsubscribe anytime.
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.8), DOAJ. Published by Frontiers Media SA.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2673-7515Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 280 / 725 | 61st | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 168 / 361 | 53rd | Q2 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 78 / 147 | 47th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.8.
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 280 of 725), Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 168 of 361) and Q3 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 78 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2, 61st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.635, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 17.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,353 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 Tropical Diseases is published by Frontiers Media SA. Its ISSN is 2673-7515.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases has an h-index of 26 and a 2-year mean of 2.65 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #169 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Frontiers in Tropical Diseases published 88 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 138. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (8.2%), United States (6.3%) and Ethiopia (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.
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.
Comments load as you scroll here.