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Iranian Journal of Parasitology is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.9), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. Published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1735-7020Verify ISSN ↗2008-238XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Cost to publish: Checking DOAJ for article charges…
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 248 / 361 | 31st | Q3 |
| Parasitology | 60 / 82 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2008–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.9.
Iranian Journal of Parasitology is Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 248 of 361) and Q3 in Parasitology (rank 60 of 82), by CiteScore 2025.
Iranian Journal of Parasitology 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 1.9, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 31st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.338, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 41.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$250 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.
Iranian Journal of Parasitology is published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Its print ISSN is 1735-7020 and its online ISSN is 2008-238X.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Iranian Journal of Parasitology has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 0.5 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #276 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Iranian Journal of Parasitology published 70 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 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 98 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Iran (57.1%), Türkiye (9.4%) and Iraq (6.6%). 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.
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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