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High Altitude Medicine and Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1527-0297Verify ISSN ↗1557-8682Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 360 / 725 | 50th | Q2 |
| Physiology | 146 / 196 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.8.
High Altitude Medicine and Biology is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 360 of 725) and Q3 in Physiology (rank 146 of 196), by CiteScore 2025.
High Altitude Medicine and Biology 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 50th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.413, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 67.
High Altitude Medicine and Biology is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1527-0297 and its online ISSN is 1557-8682.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
High Altitude Medicine and Biology has an h-index of 75 and a 2-year mean of 1.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #304 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
High Altitude Medicine and Biology published 50 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 79. 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 95 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (31.6%), United States (16.7%) and Switzerland (8.9%).
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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