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Indian Journal of Community Medicine is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.6), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0970-0218Verify ISSN ↗1998-3581Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 487 / 725 | 32nd | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.6.
Indian Journal of Community Medicine is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 487 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Community Medicine 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 1.6, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 32nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.416, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 53.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$80 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.
Indian Journal of Community Medicine is published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. Its print ISSN is 0970-0218 and its online ISSN is 1998-3581.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Indian Journal of Community Medicine has an h-index of 83 and a 2-year mean of 0.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.6, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #451 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Indian Journal of Community Medicine published 301 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 644. 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 96 research articles (2026), authors are most often from India (94.6%), United States (4.2%) and Malaysia (0.5%). 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. 21 retracted papers are recorded (5.9 per 1,000 papers). 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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