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Infectious Disease Clinics of North America is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), WoS SCIE. Published by W.B. Saunders.
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ISSN 0891-5520Verify ISSN ↗1557-9824Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$4,050 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 47 / 361 | 87th | Q1 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 30 / 147 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America is Q1 in Infectious Diseases (rank 47 of 361) and Q1 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 30 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.482, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 129.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,050 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.
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0891-5520 and its online ISSN is 1557-9824.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America has an h-index of 150 and a 2-year mean of 3.21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #94 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 86. 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 94 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (81.6%), Australia (4.6%) and Singapore (4.1%). 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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