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Indian Journal of Leprosy is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.5). Published by Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh (Indian Leprosy Association).
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ISSN 0254-9395Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh (Indian Leprosy Association)
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dermatology | 120 / 152 | 21st | Q4 |
| Infectious Diseases | 320 / 361 | 11th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.5.
Indian Journal of Leprosy is Q4 in Dermatology (rank 120 of 152) and Q4 in Infectious Diseases (rank 320 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Leprosy 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 0.5, quartile Q4, 21st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.228, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 24.
Indian Journal of Leprosy is published by Hind Kusht Nivaran Sangh (Indian Leprosy Association). Its ISSN is 0254-9395.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Journal of Leprosy has an h-index of 3 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.5, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #134 of 144 Scopus journals in Dermatology.
Indian Journal of Leprosy published 2 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 12. 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.
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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