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Journal of Health and Pollution is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.1), DOAJ. Published by Pure Earth.
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ISSN 2156-9614Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Pure Earth
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 534 / 725 | 26th | Q3 |
| Pollution | 153 / 180 | 15th | Q4 |
| Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis | 132 / 151 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2024–2025 (also 2017–2021), best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.1.
Journal of Health and Pollution is Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 534 of 725), Q4 in Pollution (rank 153 of 180) and Q4 in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis (rank 132 of 151), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Health and Pollution 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 1.1, quartile Q3, 26th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.166, quartile Q4, with an H-index of 32.
Journal of Health and Pollution is published by Pure Earth. Its ISSN is 2156-9614.
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 Health and Pollution has an h-index of 40 and a 2-year mean of 2.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #179 of 710 Scopus journals in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.
Journal of Health and Pollution published 4 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 52. 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 55 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from Nigeria (14.1%), India (12.5%) and United States (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 2 retracted papers are recorded (5.8 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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