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International Journal of Obesity is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Nature.
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ISSN 0307-0565Verify ISSN ↗1476-5497Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Nature
Cost to publish: About US$4,790 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 54 / 466 | 88th | Q1 |
| Nutrition and Dietetics | 21 / 147 | 86th | Q1 |
| Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | 44 / 250 | 82nd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1977–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.2.
International Journal of Obesity is Q1 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 54 of 466), Q1 in Nutrition and Dietetics (rank 21 of 147) and Q1 in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism (rank 44 of 250), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Obesity 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 8.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 88th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.572, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 265.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,790 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.
International Journal of Obesity is published by Springer Nature. Its print ISSN is 0307-0565 and its online ISSN is 1476-5497.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Obesity has an h-index of 305 and a 2-year mean of 4.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #52 of 451 Scopus journals in Medicine (miscellaneous).
International Journal of Obesity published 279 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 310. 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 98 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (21.7%), China (19.4%) and Finland (4.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 20 retracted papers are recorded (2.4 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.
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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