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Health Physics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd..
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ISSN 0017-9078Verify ISSN ↗1538-5159Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 103 / 173 | 40th | Q3 |
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging | 233 / 361 | 35th | Q3 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 117 / 151 | 22nd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1958–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.
Health Physics is Q3 in Epidemiology (rank 103 of 173), Q3 in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (rank 233 of 361) and Q4 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 117 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Health Physics 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 2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.383, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 89.
Health Physics is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0017-9078 and its online ISSN is 1538-5159.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Health Physics has an h-index of 127 and a 2-year mean of 0.8 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #117 of 171 Scopus journals in Epidemiology.
Health Physics published 172 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 264. 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 76 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (25.4%), China (9.2%) and Canada (7.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.2 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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