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Health Research in Africa is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.1), DOAJ. Published by Afrimvoe Medical Services.
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ISSN 3006-4090Verify ISSN ↗3006-4104Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Afrimvoe Medical Services
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical Laboratory Technology | 41 / 42 | 2nd | Q4 |
| Surgery | 593 / 597 | 0th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 721 / 725 | 0th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2023–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.1.
Health Research in Africa is Q4 in Medical Laboratory Technology (rank 41 of 42), Q4 in Surgery (rank 593 of 597) and Q4 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 721 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Health Research in Africa 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 0.1, quartile Q4, 2nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.117, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 2.
Health Research in Africa is published by Afrimvoe Medical Services. Its print ISSN is 3006-4090 and its online ISSN is 3006-4104.
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.
Health Research in Africa has an h-index of 1 and a 2-year mean of 0.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.1, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #37 of 42 Scopus journals in Medical Laboratory Technology.
Health Research in Africa published 98 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 56 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Cameroon (17%), Côte d’Ivoire (16.1%) and Burkina Faso (10.7%).
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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