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Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 2.8), WoS SCIE. Published by National Institute of Health.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 1344-6304Verify ISSN ↗1884-2836Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: National Institute of Health
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infectious Diseases | 211 / 361 | 41st | Q3 |
| Microbiology (medical) | 96 / 147 | 35th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present (also 1961–1963), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 2.8.
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases is Q3 in Infectious Diseases (rank 211 of 361) and Q3 in Microbiology (medical) (rank 96 of 147), by CiteScore 2025.
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 41st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.367, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 63.
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases is published by National Institute of Health. Its print ISSN is 1344-6304 and its online ISSN is 1884-2836.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases has an h-index of 68 and a 2-year mean of 0.89 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #245 of 354 Scopus journals in Infectious Diseases.
Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases published 54 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 127. 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 99 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Japan (70.7%), Türkiye (5.6%) and Indonesia (4%). 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. 3 retracted papers are recorded (1 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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