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Indian Journal of Palliative Care is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.5), WoS ESCI. Published by Scientific Scholar.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0973-1075Verify ISSN ↗1998-3735Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Scientific Scholar
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 398 / 725 | 45th | Q3 |
| Health Policy | 188 / 330 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.5.
Indian Journal of Palliative Care is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 398 of 725) and Q3 in Health Policy (rank 188 of 330), by CiteScore 2025.
Indian Journal of Palliative Care 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 45th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.595, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 46.
Indian Journal of Palliative Care is published by Scientific Scholar. Its print ISSN is 0973-1075 and its online ISSN is 1998-3735.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Indian Journal of Palliative Care has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 1.15 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #421 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Indian Journal of Palliative Care published 60 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 148. 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 88 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from India (68.8%), Indonesia (6.3%) and Philippines (2.3%). 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. 4 retracted papers are recorded (3.2 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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