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Journal of Intellectual Disabilities is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 1744-6295Verify ISSN ↗1744-6309Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,650 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Professions (miscellaneous) | 13 / 101 | 87th | Q1 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 226 / 580 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities is Q1 in Health Professions (miscellaneous) (rank 13 of 101) and Q2 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 226 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.595, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 58.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,650 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 Intellectual Disabilities is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1744-6295 and its online ISSN is 1744-6309.
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 Intellectual Disabilities has an h-index of 50 and a 2-year mean of 1.79 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 97 Scopus journals in Health Professions (miscellaneous).
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities published 30 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 88. 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 Kingdom (15.3%), United States (15.3%) and Türkiye (7.1%).
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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