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Journal of Migration and Health is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.8), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Elsevier B.V..
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ISSN 2666-6235Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demography | 19 / 140 | 86th | Q1 |
| Sociology and Political Science | 236 / 1530 | 84th | Q1 |
| Health (social science) | 72 / 387 | 81st | Q1 |
| Infectious Diseases | 129 / 361 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.8.
Journal of Migration and Health is Q1 in Demography (rank 19 of 140), Q1 in Sociology and Political Science (rank 236 of 1530) and Q1 in Health (social science) (rank 72 of 387), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal of Migration and Health is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 4.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 86th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.994, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 27.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,670 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 Migration and Health is published by Elsevier B.V. Its ISSN is 2666-6235.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Journal of Migration and Health has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 2.38 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 137 Scopus journals in Demography.
Journal of Migration and Health published 96 papers in 2025. 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 100 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (18.5%), Germany (11.5%) and United Kingdom (10.5%).
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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