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Global Health Science and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 4.4), WoS SCIE/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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ISSN 2169-575XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 97 / 330 | 70th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 222 / 725 | 69th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 4.4.
Global Health Science and Practice is Q2 in Health Policy (rank 97 of 330) and Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 222 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Global Health Science and Practice is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 4.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.949, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 53.
Global Health Science and Practice is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Its ISSN is 2169-575X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Global Health Science and Practice has an h-index of 67 and a 2-year mean of 4.57 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #23 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Global Health Science and Practice published 23 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 141. 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 96 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (40.8%), South Africa (6.8%) and United Kingdom (5.8%).
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.
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