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Infection Prevention in Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.5), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2590-0889Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 298 / 725 | 58th | Q2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 181 / 361 | 50th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.5.
Infection Prevention in Practice is Q2 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 298 of 725) and Q2 in Infectious Diseases (rank 181 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Infection Prevention in Practice 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 3.5, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 58th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.605, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 21.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,500 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.
Infection Prevention in Practice is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2590-0889.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Infection Prevention in Practice has an h-index of 28 and a 2-year mean of 2.41 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.5, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #201 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Infection Prevention in Practice published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 92. 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 (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (12%), United Kingdom (10.4%) and Ireland (8.3%).
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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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