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Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.5), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by BMJ Publishing Group.
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ISSN 0143-005XVerify ISSN ↗1470-2738Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 69 / 725 | 90th | Q1 |
| Epidemiology | 24 / 173 | 86th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.5.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 69 of 725) and Q1 in Epidemiology (rank 24 of 173), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, 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 7.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 90th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.441, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 207.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health is published by BMJ Publishing Group. Its print ISSN is 0143-005X and its online ISSN is 1470-2738.
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 and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has an h-index of 264 and a 2-year mean of 2.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #151 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health published 146 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 221. 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 (2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (36.4%), United States (16.7%) and China (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 1 retracted paper is recorded (0.1 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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