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Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.8). It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 1538-1501Verify ISSN ↗1538-151XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health (social science) | 315 / 387 | 18th | Q4 |
| Infectious Diseases | 298 / 361 | 17th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2025–present (also 2002–2023), best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.8.
Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services is Q4 in Health (social science) (rank 315 of 387) and Q4 in Infectious Diseases (rank 298 of 361), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services 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 0.8, quartile Q4, 18th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.238, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 21.
Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 1538-1501 and its online ISSN is 1538-151X.
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.
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 HIV/AIDS and Social Services has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.8, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #260 of 378 Scopus journals in Health (social science).
Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services published 21 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2016 with 46. 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 76 research articles (2021–2025), authors are most often from United States (38.2%), Indonesia (10.5%) and Nigeria (8.6%).
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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