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Journal of Global Health Science is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.9). Published by Korean Society of Global Health.
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ISSN 2671-6925Verify ISSN ↗2671-6933Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Korean Society of Global Health
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Epidemiology | 133 / 173 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Infectious Diseases | 288 / 361 | 20th | Q4 |
| Health Policy | 265 / 330 | 19th | Q4 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 582 / 725 | 19th | Q4 |
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Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.9.
Journal of Global Health Science is Q4 in Epidemiology (rank 133 of 173), Q4 in Infectious Diseases (rank 288 of 361) and Q4 in Health Policy (rank 265 of 330), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Global Health Science 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 0.9, quartile Q4, 23rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.277, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Journal of Global Health Science is published by Korean Society of Global Health. Its print ISSN is 2671-6925 and its online ISSN is 2671-6933.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Global Health Science has an h-index of 14 and a 2-year mean of 0.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.9, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #120 of 171 Scopus journals in Epidemiology.
Journal of Global Health Science published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 51. 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 91 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from Ghana (29.3%), South Korea (19.6%) and Nigeria (6.8%).
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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