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Health SA Gesondheid is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd.
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ISSN 1025-9848Verify ISSN ↗2071-9736Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: AOSIS (Pty) Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 429 / 725 | 40th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 203 / 330 | 38th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2011–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.1.
Health SA Gesondheid is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 429 of 725) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 203 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Health SA Gesondheid is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 2.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 40th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.464, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 25.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$581 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.
Health SA Gesondheid is published by AOSIS (Pty) Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1025-9848 and its online ISSN is 2071-9736.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Health SA Gesondheid has an h-index of 39 and a 2-year mean of 1.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #337 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Health SA Gesondheid published 141 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (89.2%), Namibia (6.1%) and Morocco (1%). 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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