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Journal of Health and Social Behavior is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.9), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by American Sociological Association.
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ISSN 0022-1465Verify ISSN ↗2150-6000Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Cost to publish: About US$3,900 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Psychology | 23 / 315 | 92nd | Q1 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 59 / 725 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1967–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.9.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior is Q1 in Social Psychology (rank 23 of 315) and Q1 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 59 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior is indexed in the 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 7.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 92nd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.867, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 157.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,900 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 Health and Social Behavior is published by American Sociological Association. Its print ISSN is 0022-1465 and its online ISSN is 2150-6000.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior has an h-index of 260 and a 2-year mean of 3.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #34 of 308 Scopus journals in Social Psychology.
Journal of Health and Social Behavior published 47 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 55. 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 98 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (82%), United Kingdom (3%) and Netherlands (2%). 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. 2 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 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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