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Implementation Science Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by BioMed Central Ltd.
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ISSN 2662-2211Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Policy | 63 / 330 | 81st | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 144 / 725 | 80th | Q1 |
| Health Informatics | 59 / 168 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.6.
Implementation Science Communications is Q1 in Health Policy (rank 63 of 330), Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 144 of 725) and Q2 in Health Informatics (rank 59 of 168), by CiteScore 2025.
Implementation Science Communications 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 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 1.343, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 34.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,290 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.
Implementation Science Communications is published by BioMed Central Ltd. Its ISSN is 2662-2211.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Implementation Science Communications has an h-index of 49 and a 2-year mean of 2.44 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #83 of 327 Scopus journals in Health Policy.
Implementation Science Communications published 164 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (50.2%), United Kingdom (9.1%) and Australia (6.1%). 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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