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Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Public Health Agency of Canada.
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ISSN 2368-738XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Public Health Agency of Canada
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 60 / 330 | 81st | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 142 / 725 | 80th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 42 / 173 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2015–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 60 of 330), Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 142 of 725) and Q1 in Epidemiology (rank 42 of 173), by CiteScore 2025.
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice 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 5.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.204, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 41.
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice is published by Public Health Agency of Canada. Its ISSN is 2368-738X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 2.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #95 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada : Research, Policy and Practice published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 77. 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 79 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Canada (91.1%), Australia (5.7%) and United States (1.9%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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