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Journal of Cystic Fibrosis is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 10.2), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 1569-1993Verify ISSN ↗1873-5010Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$4,370 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health | 9 / 351 | 97th | Q1 |
| Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine | 11 / 165 | 93rd | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 10.2.
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis is Q1 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (rank 9 of 351) and Q1 in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine (rank 11 of 165), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis 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 10.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.908, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 103.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,370 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.
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis is published by Elsevier B.V. Its print ISSN is 1569-1993 and its online ISSN is 1873-5010.
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.
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis has an h-index of 117 and a 2-year mean of 0.52 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 10.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #225 of 344 Scopus journals in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.
Journal of Cystic Fibrosis published 1,694 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 1,719. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United States (82.4%), Canada (5.1%) and United Kingdom (2.1%). 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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