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Journal of Disability Research is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.1), DOAJ. Published by King Salman Center for Disability Research.
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ISSN 2676-2633Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: King Salman Center for Disability Research
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation | 65 / 172 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Health (social science) | 150 / 387 | 61st | Q2 |
| Medicine (miscellaneous) | 197 / 466 | 57th | Q2 |
| Biomedical Engineering | 213 / 342 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.1.
Journal of Disability Research is Q2 in Rehabilitation (rank 65 of 172), Q2 in Health (social science) (rank 150 of 387) and Q2 in Medicine (miscellaneous) (rank 197 of 466), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Disability Research is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2, 62nd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.416, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 11.
Journal of Disability Research is published by King Salman Center for Disability Research. Its ISSN is 2676-2633.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Disability Research has an h-index of 18 and a 2-year mean of 4.02 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 168 Scopus journals in Rehabilitation.
Journal of Disability Research published 76 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 110. 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 62 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (66%), Egypt (9.3%) and Pakistan (5.6%). 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.
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